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Episode 1: Farming for profit
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The question that keeps coming up: how do we learn this stuff?
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Yield and quality, and why it pays to pull both.
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What makes it through grading, and what the rest costs you.
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Set beside what it earns, it tells you whether a program paid for itself.
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By the end, you’ll…
- see which lever a program is pulling: yield, quality, or both
- count profit at the packing shed, not the weighbridge
- work out what a kilogram costs you to grow
“Yield is not necessarily the profit, it’s the recoveries on the yield.”
Episode 1 · Farming for profit
Take home
Profit is counted at the packing shed: recoveries and cost per kilogram, not just tonnes.
Try it on your farm
- Pull last season’s grading figures: what share made it through?
- Work out what a kilogram costs you to grow.
- Ask of every input: which lever is it pulling?
From the Plant’s Perspective · Quorum Ag with Steve Martin
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Episode 1: Farming for profit
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In this episode
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Part 1Why growers ask for this
The question that keeps coming up: how do we learn this stuff?
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Part 2Two levers
Yield and quality, and why it pays to pull both.
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Part 3Recoveries
What makes it through grading, and what the rest costs you.
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Part 4Cost per kilogram
Set beside what it earns, it tells you whether a program paid for itself.
By the end, you’ll…
- see which lever a program is pulling: yield, quality, or both
- count profit at the packing shed, not the weighbridge
- work out what a kilogram costs you to grow
“Yield is not necessarily the profit, it’s the recoveries on the yield.”
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Profit is counted at the packing shed: recoveries and cost per kilogram, not just tonnes.
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Two levers.
Most people concentrate on the problem they have. Steve pulls two levers, because the money is in what makes it through grading.
Yield, and quality
Yield is how much you grow. Quality decides how much of it makes it through the packing shed and gets paid for. A program that only chases tonnes can leave the money on the grading table.
“If I can’t make them profitable, they’re not going to be here next year.”
So the episode ends on one number: what a packed kilogram costs you to grow. Set beside what it earns, it tells you whether a program paid for itself.
