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.