Farming produce
Crop storage loss economics
Compare immediate sale with a supplied storage scenario after shrink, storage charges and later unit prices.
Your inputs
Complete the fields for your selected method. Zero means intentionally zero, not unknown. Currency selection labels amounts; it does not convert exchange rates.
How this calculation works
immediate proceeds = starting quantity × current price; stored net = starting quantity × (1 - loss share) × later price - storage expense
This is an enterprise-budget worksheet using supplied quantities, prices and assumptions. No feeding ration, treatment, stocking rate, fertilizer, pesticide, yield forecast or equipment suitability is prescribed. Lost-sales value is explanatory; it is already reflected in reduced quantity sold and must not be subtracted twice. Loss and later price are assumptions, not food-safety, shelf-life or market forecasts. Original product cost is already invested and cancels from the immediate-versus-stored decision; it is deducted once in the separate storage gross-margin result. Financing and time value are excluded.
What information do I need?
Use records for the same job, equipment or accounting period. Only the fields for your selected entry method are required. An unknown amount is not zero.
Input definitions and where to find them
- Quantity entering storage (matching sale units): Matched-basis inventory weights, owner offers and storage-cost records. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
- Available immediate sale price per unit (selected currency): Matched-basis inventory weights, owner offers and storage-cost records. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
- Assumed later sale price per unit (selected currency): Matched-basis inventory weights, owner offers and storage-cost records. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
- Assumed shrink and unsaleable share in storage (%): Matched-basis inventory weights, owner offers and storage-cost records. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
- Total storage and handling expense (selected currency): Matched-basis inventory weights, owner offers and storage-cost records. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
- Original production or acquisition cost per unit entering storage (selected currency): Matched-basis inventory weights, owner offers and storage-cost records. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
Use the Where to find this value controls beside the inputs for available work-it-out helpers. Estimates remain your assumptions; a helper does not verify the source figures.
Worked example
Example amounts use US dollars (USD).
Example answer: Stored-sale net minus immediate-sale proceeds is $50.00 for the illustrative inputs below.
Example inputs
- Quantity entering storage: 1,000.00 matching sale units
- Available immediate sale price per unit: $2.00
- Assumed later sale price per unit: $2.50
- Assumed shrink and unsaleable share in storage: 10.00 %
- Total storage and handling expense: $200.00
- Original production or acquisition cost per unit entering storage: $0.00
- Stored-sale net minus immediate-sale proceeds
- $50.00
- Net stored-sale proceeds
- $2,050.00
- Immediate-sale proceeds
- $2,000.00
- Lost-sales value at assumed later price
- $250.00
- Storage-sale gross margin after original product cost
- $2,050.00
- Stored-sale gross receipts
- $2,250.00
- Saleable quantity after storage
- 900.00 matching sale units
- Quantity lost during storage
- 100.00 matching sale units
- Original product cost plus storage expense
- $200.00
These illustrative values are not recommended rates or industry averages. Replace every example input with your own figures.
Use the result well
Compare cost/loss impact on receipts.
Keep inputs on the same scope and time basis. Calculations retain precision internally; displayed values generally round to two decimal places, with extra precision for very small values and whole-unit rounding where required. Economic comparisons describe your supplied assumptions and do not guarantee future results.
This tool provides business arithmetic. It does not approve engineering designs, establish legal or tax treatment, select equipment or certify safe operating conditions.