Start / Management and costs

Production cost

Cost per hectare and per bag, break-even in bags and crop margin, with each cost item shown separately.

Production cost

Add the variable and fixed costs per hectare and see the cost per bag, the break-even point and the crop profit at the sale price.

Cost per bag, break-even and margin

Exchange ratio

Calculate how many bags of grain buy one tonne of fertilizer, how much fertilizer one bag pays for, and how the ratio changes as prices vary.

Grain bags that buy one tonne of fertilizer

Input payment term

Calculate the interest rate built into the credit price of an input, per month and per year, and compare it with your opportunity cost to decide between paying cash or on credit.

Implied rate of buying on credit

Seed cost

Calculate the seeds per hectare for the target population, the mass, the cost per hectare and the cost per bag produced.

Seed cost per hectare and per bag

Lease in bags

Calculate the part of production paid as lease, in bags per hectare, and the surplus per hectare and for the leased area, based on yield, price and cost.

Share of production paid as lease and left per hectare

Gross margin between crops

Compare the gross margin per hectare of two crops, with revenue, variable cost and the difference over the area, and see how the difference changes with the grain price.

Gross margin per hectare of two crops

Downtime cost during harvest

Estimate the cost of a machine breakdown in the harvest or planting window, from the production lost to delay and the fixed cost of each idle day.

Bag loss and fixed cost per day of idle machine