The Class 1 packout a crop must reach, at the price received, simply to cover the season’s costs. It reframes cost of production as a grading-shed target every grower understands — cartons off the line, not dollars in a budget.
The lower the breakeven packout relative to your realistic Class 1 recovery, the more resilient the business — the buffer between breakeven and achieved packout is what carries the block through a hail, heat or price setback.
APAL Orchard Business Analysis ↗Breakeven packout is a resilience gauge. A wide gap between breakeven and achieved packout means the orchard absorbs a bad grading season; a narrow one means a single hail event or heat spell tips the year into a loss. It shows the risk baked into the plan before harvest.
Silo pulls each of these from the sources the operation already uses, and keeps the figure current automatically.
Invest in netting and handling to lift and stabilise packout.
Lower fixed costs per hectare to pull the breakeven packout down.
Diversify grades and markets to reduce reliance on one price.
The Class 1 packout a crop must reach, at the price received, simply to cover the season’s costs. It reframes cost of production as a grading-shed target every grower understands — cartons off the line, not dollars in a budget.
You need: Total costs per hectare ($/ha), Price received by grade ($/kg), 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 packout relative to your realistic Class 1 recovery, the more resilient the business — the buffer between breakeven and achieved packout is what carries the block through a hail, heat or price setback.
Invest in netting and handling to lift and stabilise packout. Lower fixed costs per hectare to pull the breakeven packout down. Diversify grades and markets to reduce reliance on one price.
Connect the software, spreadsheets and records you already keep, and Silo keeps every benchmark on this page current automatically.
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