Wheat cost tool benefits growers

摘要

Nine of out10 Scottish producers did not know their costs of producing a tonne of wheat, before using the HGCA's benchmarking system CropBench. More than 1,700 farmers in Scotland and England, including 30 arable groups, are now usingthe HGCA's online tool. They input their own variable costs, labour, machinery, rent and other figures, to help pinpoint those areas of their business that can be improved. In Scotland the CropBench model has been taken to a deeper level with HGCA arable monitor farms, which are supported by the Scottish government.