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- Projected Costs And Returns Enterprise Budgets For Crawfish Production In Louisiana, 2025/26 Production Season
James Fontenot, Guidry, Kurt M.
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Crawfish production enterprises, like other farm enterprises, require advanced planning to make production decisions that are likely to result in profit. The purpose of this report is to provide production cost estimates for crawfish enterprises. These estimates may assist producers in making decisions and obtaining adequate financing. Crawfish production and its associated costs should not be interpreted as averages for producers in the industry. The purpose of the cost projections is to provide guidelines whereby producers and others with an interest in crawfish production costs can make cost estimates appropriate to their unique situation.
This report presents projected costs and returns for different crawfish production systems in Louisiana for the 2025/26 production year. Assumptions regarding input usage and management activities are based on Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station research results and selected surveys. For each enterprise budget, a set of management activities and practices are assumed and estimates of the costs of those activities and practices are developed using projections of input costs and equipment and machinery costs.
Budgets in this publication are presented in two budget formats. The first budget format (Table A) is a summary of the costs and, where applicable, the returns for the enterprise. The second budget format (Table B) provides a listing of the sequence of production operations, indicating equipment and implements used, month of operation, labor required, machine time required, and materials used. two sections.
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