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Harvest Diesel Cost Impact
What your diesel price is doing to cost per acre and breakeven per bushel.
Diesel Impact
Enter your acres, your delivered price and what you budgeted. Check off the field operations you actually run — separate Yes/No for corn ground and bean ground, so anhydrous and fall tillage only count where you use them, and the combine is split by crop. Gallons per operation come from Iowa State Extension PM 709 (the grain cart is an estimate), and each one can be changed.
What it shows
Fuel cost per acre at your price against your budget, the whole-farm variance, and how it moves your breakeven per bushel. A separate block for the diesel a per-acre field figure misses — grain hauling, pickup and service truck, skid loader, road travel and idling — so the all-in total can be checked against your invoices. Plus a price ladder in 50-cent steps around your price.
Reality check
Enter the gallons you actually bought last year and the worksheet tells you whether its assumptions match how you farm — and where to look if they don't.
What it will not do
It will not tell you whether to buy fuel now or hedge. It does not cover LP for grain drying. And the price to use is your delivered bulk price, not the pump price on the news — dyed farm diesel carries no road tax.
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