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High tunnel production offers growers flexibility and will make it easier to meet consumer demands. These budgets offer prospective high tunnel growers some baseline data that will assist them in making decisions concerning the best combination and rotation of crops in these structures. The hanging baskets of flowers may be profitable, but they need to be paired with a crop that can stand a bit of shading in order to be a profitable addition to a high tunnel. Green or colored peppers, cherry tomatoes and sweet potatoes offer only marginal or no profit. The budgets included indicate that tomatoes and winter greens (including spinach) may offer the greatest profitability to retail market farmers. Growers are encouraged to not rely solely on these budgets to predict yield, but to seek out other information sources especially from experienced farmers. The variability in yield in a variety trial, for instance, impacts the overall profitability represented in the enterprise budget. The third consideration is that several of these budgets were gathered from tunnel operations where other applied research was ongoing.
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Retail prices vary dramatically throughout the state, and prospective growers should be aware of the market prices at venues where they sell as they pencil out their own budgets.
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The market price for each budget was kept intact. The average used in all the budgets is $12/hour. This does not seem appropriate as many of the owner operators are doing the labor. Only two farmers used an estimate above $10/hour – several used lower than $10/hour. To make the budgets as consistent as possible, an average was taken for the per hour labor cost. Each farmer kept records of their labor inputs and also shared, to the best of their abilities, the cost of machinery and material as well as construction costs for their high tunnel structures. The information has been gathered from 8 different farmers. Winter greens in an unheated high tunnel.Winter greens in a soil heated high tunnel.pdf files of budgets in spreadsheet above: