D-break-even-yield Dictionary
Break-Even Yield
The yield needed for income to cover all costs at the expected price
- Plain meaning
- The yield needed for income to cover all costs at the expected price
- How to use it
- Divide total cost per hectare by the price per tonne. If the break-even yield is above the realistic yield, change the crop, the price or the cost before planting.
- South African benchmark
- Concept term; South African grain budgets set break-even yield against SAFEX-linked prices.
- Country notes
- At Zimbabwe's 2025/26 cost of US$1,200-1,300 a hectare and GMB price of US$364.75 a tonne, maize breaks even at about 3.3 to 3.6 tonnes a hectare.
- Go and read
- C3
- Calculate it
- T-M1-03 Yield-to-Income Calculator
- See also
- Yield gap, Break-even volume, Gross margin
Introduced in C3 Productivity Economics.