A profitable orchard is built from small, compounding gains: a point of packout recovered, an extra tonne of Class 1, a cent shaved off cost per kilo, a millimetre of water put to better use. Tracking the right benchmarks across the season is how you find and hold those levers.
Tonnes harvested per hectare by crop — the headline number every packout and cost figure divides into.
Fruit grown per megalitre of irrigation applied — the truest read on how well a scarce, metered input was converted.
Actual yield as a share of the light-limited potential the canopy could have grown — the gap you can still close.
Fruit carried per tree against the target for size and grade — the single lever that trades total yield against fruit size.
The share of fruit reaching count-90-or-larger — the size threshold that divides carton fruit from lower-value grades.
The Class 1 recovery spread across packed lines against the district benchmark — the line between a carton price and a juice price.
Flesh pressure by line against the minimum for storage and shipping — a direct read on maturity and shelf life.
Soluble sugar by line against the minimum eating and export spec — the driver of flavour, repeat sales and premium grade.
How the season's fresh-fruit tonnes fell across grades — from everything picked down to the export-grade share that earns the top price.
Kilograms of fruit grown for every kilogram of nitrogen applied — how hard an expensive, emissions-heavy input is working.
Nutrient applied against nutrient removed in fruit, by element — fruit exports heavy potassium, so K quietly runs down first.
Topsoil acidity measured in calcium chloride, tracked against the target — the master variable behind nutrient availability and root health.
The share of applied water taken up in the root zone rather than lost to runoff or deep drainage — every megalitre is metered and paid for.
Total operating cost per kilogram of fruit produced — your breakeven, with harvest and packing labour the dominant line.
The average $/kg your fruit actually earned by grade — read against cost of production, this is your margin per kilo.
Crop revenue minus the direct variable costs, per hectare — the cleanest read on how the blocks performed above overheads.
The Class 1 packout needed just to cover this season's costs at the price received — the buffer between you and a loss.
Total operating costs as a share of gross farm income — how many cents of every dollar earned the running of the orchard consumes.
Tonnes of CO₂-equivalent emitted per tonne of fruit produced — and it falls as nitrogen, fuel and refrigeration are used more efficiently.
Connect your packout reports, irrigation meters and orchard accounts — Silo keeps every benchmark on this page current, automatically.