This report presents estimates of projected production costs for beef cattle production, dairy production and forage crop production for the 2006 crop year.

This report presents estimates of projected production costs for crawfish and catfish production in Louisiana for 2006.

This report presents estimates of production costs for rice production in Louisiana for the 2006 crop year. Cost estimates are included for typical rice production systrems including conventional tillage, stale seedbed, production in rotation and fallow, as well as production of conventional and herbicide-resistant varieties. Production cost estimates are also included for production of soybeans, wheat and sorghum in southwest Louisiana.

Cost budgets are reported for 20 vegetable crops, with a total of 38 combinations of crop, machinery size, and market channel. Each cost budget is supplemented with a table where net return is calculated over a range of prices and yields.

This report presents estimates of production costs for cotton, soybeans, corn, milo and wheat in the Red River and Central areas of Louisiana for the 2006 crop year.

The report presents cost estimates for sugarcane production in Louisiana for the 2006 crop year. Cost estimates are included for all phases of sugarcane production including seedbed preparation, planting, plant-cane and stubble crop operations and harvest. Whole farm projected income and expense statements are also included for harvest of sugarcane through second, third and fourth stubble (ratoon) crops.

This report presents estimates of projected production costs for the production of cotton, soybeans, corn, milo and wheat in Northeast Louisiana for the 2006 crop year.

This report provides estimates of planting cost investment per acre for various sugarcane phases of production in 2006.