How-To
The Crop Plan is where you budget out expected costs and revenue per commodity for the crop year, so you can see projected income before the season plays out.
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Go to Budgets and click into Crop Plan.
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On the Crop Plan page, click Add Crop to add a commodity to the plan.
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Set acres, expected yield, and an Estimated Price (Futures + Basis), then fill in cost line items: seed, fertilizer, chemical, insurance, and other expenses. Fixed costs (equipment, land, overhead) are managed separately and get folded into each crop's per-acre income calculation.
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The Income column shows projected per-acre income after expenses and fixed costs. Hover it for a breakdown of Revenue / Expenses / Fixed Costs.
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Edit or delete a crop plan line at any time as your numbers firm up through the season.
If last year's Crop Plan has data and this year's doesn't yet, an Auto-Fill from Last Year button appears; use it to copy last year's crop lines into the current year as a starting point instead of building the plan from scratch. This is separate from the same-named button on Fixed Costs, which only copies Fixed Cost figures.
The Price column isn't just your Estimated Price sitting there unchanged. It already blends in your farm's real Contract sales for that commodity as they happen, weighted against your Estimated Price for whatever's still left to sell. So Price (and the Income figure built from it) update automatically as you sell, with no extra step. See Profitability for the same live numbers rolled up to total dollars for the year, plus break-even figures Crop Plan doesn't show.
FAQ
Why can't I add or edit the Crop Plan? You need the Manage Crop Plan permission; a staff account may have view-only access to Budgets.
Where do Fixed Costs come from? Fixed Costs are entered separately (not per-crop) and get spread across your crop plan lines to calculate each crop's true per-acre income. Check with whoever set up your Fixed Costs if the income numbers look off.
Does the Crop Plan use actual harvested numbers or my estimates? Acres and yield are what you enter as a budget/estimate. They're separate from actual Field Operations (like harvest) logged under Fields, and aren't automatically kept in sync, since a budget is meant to be a projection you set ahead of the season. Price is the exception: it isn't a static estimate once you start selling. See the note above about how it blends in real Contract sales automatically.