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:
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