The yield a crop must reach, at the price received, simply to cover this season’s costs. It reframes cost of production as a paddock target every grower understands — tonnes on the header, not dollars in a budget.
The lower the breakeven yield relative to your realistic average, the more resilient the business — the buffer between breakeven and expected yield is what carries you through a below-average season.
GRDC GroundCover ↗Breakeven yield is a resilience gauge. A wide gap between breakeven and your realistic average means the business absorbs a poor season; a narrow one means a single dry spring tips the year into a loss. It shows the risk baked into the input plan before sowing.
Silo pulls each of these from the sources the operation already uses, and keeps the figure current automatically.
Set input intensity to the seasonal outlook, not last year’s big crop.
Lower fixed costs per hectare to pull the breakeven yield down.
Lock in price on part of the crop to reduce the breakeven’s exposure.
The yield a crop must reach, at the price received, simply to cover this season’s costs. It reframes cost of production as a paddock target every grower understands — tonnes on the header, not dollars in a budget.
You need: Total costs per hectare ($/ha), Price received ($/t), Expected yield (t/ha). Silo pulls each of these from the sources the operation already uses and keeps the figure current automatically.
The lower the breakeven yield relative to your realistic average, the more resilient the business — the buffer between breakeven and expected yield is what carries you through a below-average season.
Set input intensity to the seasonal outlook, not last year’s big crop. Lower fixed costs per hectare to pull the breakeven yield down. Lock in price on part of the crop to reduce the breakeven’s exposure.
Connect the software, spreadsheets and records you already keep, and Silo keeps every benchmark on this page current automatically.
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