Estimate the Economic Impact of Your Crop Management Decisions
About ROI Calculators
Return on Investment (ROI) calculators are interactive tools designed to help users evaluate the potential economic benefit of specific agricultural practices or inputs. By combining research-based data with user-provided variables—such as input costs, market prices, and production outcomes—these calculators estimate expected net benefits and breakeven probabilities, both of which should be used in the decision-making process. ROI calculators are intended to support informed decision-making by offering insight into the financial risks and rewards of adopting a particular strategy under varying conditions. While not predictive, they provide a valuable framework for exploring scenarios based on real-world data.
The suite of CPN ROI calculators are research-based decision-support tools developed by extension experts. They assist farmers, agronomists, and agricultural professionals with exploring the potential economic return of fungicide applications in crop production. Drawing on data from multi-year, university-conducted fungicide trials across the U.S. and Ontario, Canada, these calculators estimate net benefits and breakeven probabilities based on user-defined inputs such as treatment cost, disease severity, and expected commodity prices. While the tool is grounded in real-world trial data, it is intended as a guide, and outcomes may vary depending on field-specific conditions. This calculator supports informed decision-making by helping users better understand how different variables affect the economics of fungicide use in corn.