Crop Profit
Per-acre profit for a field crop at current prices.
About Crop Profit
Yield is priced per acre into revenue and compared with cost, both for the field and on a per-acre basis. Per-acre profit lets a grower pick the land, crop and price floor that actually pay before the season starts.
Formula
Crop Profit
Revenue = yield x price x acres; profit = revenue - cost
- cost per acre
- All variable and fixed costs spread over an acre
Worked example
With the default values below, Crop Profit returns Total Revenue of $9,720. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.
Inputs used
- Acresminimum 0.01
- 10
- Yieldminimum 0 bu/ac
- 180 bu/ac
- Priceminimum 0
- 5.4
- Cost per acreminimum 0
- 700
Results
- Total Revenue
- $9,720
- Total Cost
- $7,000
- Profit
- $2,720
- Profit per Acre
- $272
Step by step
- 1Values used
- 2Crop Profit
- 3Total Revenue= 9,720
- 4Total Cost= 7,000
- 5Profit= 2,720
- 6Profit per Acre= 272
Assumptions and limits
- The result is derived only from the 4 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
- In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, tax or compounding frequency into account.
- Figures are rounded for display to whole numbers, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.
How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is Crop Profit calculated?
Revenue = yield x price x acres; profit = revenue - cost Yield is priced per acre into revenue and compared with cost, both for the field and on a per-acre basis.
Why does Crop Profit matter?
Per-acre profit lets a grower pick the land, crop and price floor that actually pay before the season starts.
What values do I need to enter?
This calculator takes 4 inputs: Acres, Yield, Price, Cost per acre. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.