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Originally Posted by screener
When you say that prices have increased more than input costs where you live, what crops are you talking about, over what span of time, and do you mean only if this crop doesn't have problems with the many weather variables? then I could agree with that.
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screener, wheat price paid to farmers has doubled in less than 2 years. Canola is at $700 per tonne, more than double what it was 3 years ago. For inputs, glyphosate price has doubled, but most other products are only 10 to 20% higher. Fertilizer has risen about 60% and fuel about 40%.
The break even yield on a wheat crop is now about 0.4 T/ha and for canola about 0.6 T/ha. Not bad.