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WSU Tree Fruit Enterprise Budgets A powerful tool to track and manage your expenses. R. Karina Gallardo & Mykel Taylor Washington State University. Content. Budget Process Where to find these studies? Assumptions made Study components Summary of findings Use of budgets. Budget Process.
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WSU Tree Fruit Enterprise BudgetsA powerful tool to track and manage your expenses R. Karina Gallardo & Mykel Taylor Washington State University
Content • Budget Process • Where to find these studies? • Assumptions made • Study components • Summary of findings • Use of budgets
Budget Process • Convene a group of growers • The budgets are not a survey • Representation of location, size of operations, and experience
Budget Process (2) • Determine the production scenario • Puts everyone on the same page when it comes to our assumptions
Budget Process (3) • Costs depend on the assumptions • Numbers are a reflection of expected costs under a strict set of assumptions
Where is it? http://extecon.wsu.edu/pages/Enterprise_Budgets
Cost Estimates of Establishing andProducing Sweetheart Cherries are available in both Excel and PDF http://extecon.wsu.edu/pages/Enterprise_Budgets
Assumptions for Sweet Cherry Study • Sweetheart on Mazzard rootstock • Block size: 10 acres • Orchard size: 150 acres • Irrigation system • Overhead and under tree drip sprinklers • Public irrigation district • Architecture • Two dimensional system (planar canopy), randomly trained w/18-in radius from tree center • In-row space: 10 feet • Between row: 16 feet • Life of planting: 25 years • Density: 272 trees per acre
Fixed Costs Summary of Costs Sweetheart Cherries by Categories ($/acre)
Cost Estimates of Establishing andProducing Gala apples are available in both Excel and PDF http://extecon.wsu.edu/pages/Enterprise_Budgets
Assumptions for Gala Study • Gala on 9 series Dwarf rootstock • Block size: 40 acres • Orchard size: 160 acres • Irrigation system • Overhead and under tree drip sprinklers • Public irrigation district • Architecture • Two dimensional system (planar canopy), randomly trained w/18-in radius from tree center • In-row space: 4 feet • Between row: 10 feet • Life of planting: 15 years • Density: 1,089 trees per acre
Summary of Costs By Categories ($/acre) Fixed Costs
COMING NEXT • Anjou pears • Bartlett –cannery- pears • Organic Gala apples • Honeycrisp apples http://extecon.wsu.edu/pages/Enterprise_Budgets
REMEMBER: Use of These Budgets • Growers • Starting point for comparison and creation of own budgets • Policy makers • Educational tool for understanding the different cost centers in tree fruit production • Lenders and investors • Illustration on operating loans and projected costs and returns • Other researchers • Financial feasibility of new technologies
Thank You R. Karina Gallardo Washington State University Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center, School of Economic Sciences 1100 N. Western Ave. Wenatchee, WA E-mail:karina_gallardo@wsu.edu Phone: (509) 663–8181 x 261 Mykel Taylor Washington State UniversitySchool of Economic Sciences 103C Hulbert Hall Pullman, WA E-mail: m_taylor@wsu.edu Phone: (509) 335-8503