Total operating expenditure divided by kilograms of fruit produced — your financial breakeven per kilo, independent of what the market does at sale. In horticulture, harvest and packing labour is the largest single line, so productivity and yield both move it.
Orchard operating costs are dominated by labour — pruning, thinning and picking — with published Goulburn Valley figures putting overheads alone around $11,000/ha and thinning as high as $6,000/ha, so cost per kilo swings hard with yield and packout.
APAL — Orchard Costs ↗It is the key tool for managing volatility: it shows how far the price can fall before a crop stops paying, and whether a high-input, high-touch season actually bought enough extra premium fruit to lower the cost per kilo rather than just raise the spend.
Silo pulls each of these from the sources the operation already uses, and keeps the figure current automatically.
Lift Class 1 packout so labour and overhead spread across premium fruit.
Mechanise and streamline pruning, thinning and picking where possible.
Spread fixed costs across more tonnes through yield and block renewal.
Total operating expenditure divided by kilograms of fruit produced — your financial breakeven per kilo, independent of what the market does at sale. In horticulture, harvest and packing labour is the largest single line, so productivity and yield both move it.
You need: Total operating expenditure ($), Fruit produced (kg). Silo pulls each of these from the sources the operation already uses and keeps the figure current automatically.
Orchard operating costs are dominated by labour — pruning, thinning and picking — with published Goulburn Valley figures putting overheads alone around $11,000/ha and thinning as high as $6,000/ha, so cost per kilo swings hard with yield and packout.
Lift Class 1 packout so labour and overhead spread across premium fruit. Mechanise and streamline pruning, thinning and picking where possible. Spread fixed costs across more tonnes through yield and block renewal.
Connect the software, spreadsheets and records you already keep, and Silo keeps every benchmark on this page current automatically.
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