Fall is a great time to pull together all that information you collected this summer but didn't have the time to do anything with--the planting schedules, harvest records, labor records, equipment logs, market receipts--and get started updating (or developing) your enterprise budgets for next year.
An enterprise budget is a tool that is used by farmers to evaluate the efficiency and profitability of a particular enterprise. There are many places on the internet where you can get templates for enterprise budgets and see examples of budgets completed by others.
Here are a couple of my favorite sites to get you started: