| Expense categories | Examples of additional expenses |
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| Infrastructure repair | - Irrigation
- Mulch attachment or detachment
- Gravel
- Materials
| - Destruction of plants in fields and greenhouses
- Cleaning ditches, picking up branches and rubble in fields
- Pumping water out of fields
- Reconstructing dikes
- Reconstructing culverts
- Repairing underground drainage and gully systems
- Repairing hedgerows
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| Equipment | - Maintenance
- Fuel
- Lubricants and replacement parts
- Costs for using machinery
- Costs for leasing machinery
| - Replacing damaged equipment
- Repairing and cleaning tractors and damaged equipment
- Re-installing irrigation and protective equipment in fields
- Modifying heavy equipment providing access to fields and aerial spraying equipment
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| Labour costs | - Harvest and preparation time
- Contract work
- Wages
| - Costs for additional manual picking, sorting and grading during harvesting
- Costs related to extra seasonal labour: transportation, leasing of vehicles, travel, lodging
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| Other variable costs | - Electricity
- Seeds and plants
- Fertilizers, conditioners, pesticides
- Testing costs
- Interest on lines of credit and long-term loans
- Transportation on and off the farm
- Seeding, planting, weeding, irrigation, spraying, adjoining leaves
- Cleaning products
- Consultants, advisory club
- Telecommunications costs
| - Soil, water and health safety tests (ex. salmonella and E Coli)
- Water treatments
- Engineering, site management and surveillance costs
- Customs duties on imported equipment
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