Total farm operating costs as a percentage of gross income — how many cents of each dollar earned are consumed by running the orchard, before finance and drawings.
Labour-intensive horticulture typically runs a higher operating-cost share of income than broadacre; efficient orchards keep the ratio in check through packout and productivity, and it climbs sharply in low-yield or low-price years.
APAL Orchard Business Analysis ↗A lower ratio is real financial resilience: it builds the cash cushion that covers interest, funds netting and replanting, and carries the orchard through a hail or heat year. A ratio creeping up over time is an early warning that costs are outrunning production.
Silo pulls each of these from the sources the operation already uses, and keeps the figure current automatically.
Grow premium tonnes to dilute fixed overheads across more income.
Review labour, machinery and finance — the largest costs — per tonne.
Benchmark and competitively source major input purchases each year.
Total farm operating costs as a percentage of gross income — how many cents of each dollar earned are consumed by running the orchard, before finance and drawings.
You need: Total operating expenses ($), Depreciation ($), Gross income ($). Silo pulls each of these from the sources the operation already uses and keeps the figure current automatically.
Labour-intensive horticulture typically runs a higher operating-cost share of income than broadacre; efficient orchards keep the ratio in check through packout and productivity, and it climbs sharply in low-yield or low-price years.
Grow premium tonnes to dilute fixed overheads across more income. Review labour, machinery and finance — the largest costs — per tonne. Benchmark and competitively source major input purchases each year.
Connect the software, spreadsheets and records you already keep, and Silo keeps every benchmark on this page current automatically.
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