FARM BUSINESS / LINE-ITEM COSTS
See where yourproduction margin goes. Build an indicative crop budget from your own hectares, yield, selling price and itemised operating costs. Illustrative defaults are placeholders, not current commodity prices or regional cost estimates .
Continuing your Atlas investigation Wheat · 2024-25
Indicative enterprise outcome Revenue, total $60,000
Operating cost, total $41,050
Margin before allocated fixed costs, total $18,950
Margin per hectare $190
Break-even crop yield: 1.31 t/ha
Break-even sale price: $205 / t
Where operating costs concentrate Cost driver Share of base costs Margin if this cost falls 10% Fertiliser 34.3% $20,186 Machinery 25.7% $19,877 Crop protection 15.7% $19,517 Seed 14.3% $19,465 Labour 10.0% $19,311 Irrigation 0.0% $18,950
Seasonal financing sensitivity Assumed annual rate Financing expense Modeled enterprise margin 4.0% $700 $19,300 6.0% $1,050 $18,950 8.0% $1,400 $18,600
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