Production costs per acre of Potatoes

1981

Seed 120.00 Fertilizer 139.04 Spray Material 97.45 Lime 16.00 Labor (includes owners wages) 163.00 Land rent 50.00 Fuel 60.00 Licenses 4.00 Supplies 10.00 Utilities 8.50 Repairs and small tools 81.82 Depreciation 99.00 Insurance, vehicles and buildings 26.00 Interest 50.00 Taxes 10.00 Accounting 5.00 Miscellaneous 15.00 954.81

1982 60.00 145.84 107.19 16.50 179.30 50.00 75.60 4.00 11.00 9.35 90.00 99.00 27.30 50.00 10.00 5.00 16.50 956.58

1983 60.00 156.00 122.00 17.00 180.00 50.00 75.00 4.00 11.00 12.50 95.00 99.00 27.30 50.00 6.00 7.50 16.50 988.80

The Government Potato Study places the cost per acre to grow potatoes at 841.00 in 1980 and 1168.00 in 1981. This study was conducted by the Prince Edward Island Department of Agriculture and was completed with the cooperation of 18 potato producers on Prince Edward Island, and does not include any return to

the operation for labor or management factors.

Machinery (John Deere) COSTS 1973 1983

125 HP. Tractor 21,759 73,000 100 HP Tractor 13,300 57,783 Potato Harvestor 14,000 56,800 Potato Planter (1969) 4,850 21,340 Grain Combine 13,800 72,150 Four row cultivator 1,400 4,953 Plow (four furrow) 1,530 3,853 Grain Drill (1975) 3,300 7,626

73,939 297,505

Registered seed potato growers at Freetown in 1983 were:

Bernard and Profitt Farms Ltd. Kennebec Robert J. Jardine Kennebec Robert and Gordon Schurman Kennebec and Sebago Walter and Donald Stavert Kennebec Sydney and Lowell Drummond Russet Burbank and Sebago Ronald Drummond Superior

There are several growers from other districts growing potatoes in Freetown.

A list of Seed and Table potato growers in Freetown in 1984 with approximate acreages is given:

Bernard and Profitt 108 ac Edwin Lewis 380 ac Walter P. Stavert 90 ac Robert Schurman 72 ac Ronald Drummond 16 ac Sydney and Lowell Drummond 100 ac Robert J. Jardine 81 ac Melvin Birch 100 ac Lyman Huestis 40 ac Layton and Stavert Huestis 124 ac

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