Cataloguing and customizing your materials and fuel data helps Overyield model your operational costs with greater accuracy.
Like your Capex data and Crop data, Materials & Fuel data can be farm-specific, team-specific, or public, depending on where the data is created and stored.
Every public crop template contains built-in materials, which are automatically imported to your farm dataset upon selecting a crop template.
Of course, materials and fuel costs can be highly variable from vendor to vendor and from region to region. As such, your projections will be more accurate if you customize these inputs according to your team’s needs or the needs of individual farms.
Creating & Editing Materials Data:
1. Navigate to Materials & Fuel under your Teams Menu or within your Farm Dataset, depending on whether you want to edit team data or farm data.
2. Within the Materials tab, click New Input+ to create an input. Otherwise, click an existing input to enter and edit its details.
3. Fill in the appropriate input data:
Input name
Enter any identifying information for that input (e.g. fertilizer nutrient ratio, brand or manufacturer, etc.)
Unit
How will you measure this input?
Input units are customizable, but should reflect the unit in which the item will be purchased
e.g. lbs, pallets, cubic yards, etc.
Package quantity
How many units are in one purchasable quantity?
e.g. 50 lbs fertilizer per bag
Package cost
What is the cost of one purchasable quantity
Shipping multiplier
Multiply your purchase quantity by this number to estimate shipping.
Shipping rates will vary depending on the item weight, state, vendor, service provider, and delivery timeframe, though a shipping multiplier of 1.1 will account for most scenarios.
4. Click Save to add the input to your Materials list.
Creating & Editing Fuel Data:
1. Navigate to Materials & Fuel under your Teams Menu or within your Farm Dataset, depending on whether you want to edit team data or farm data.
2. Within the Fuel tab, click New Input+ to create a new fuel type. Otherwise, click an existing fuel type to enter and edit its details.
3. Fill in the appropriate fuel data:
Fuel name
This is how you will identify your fuel type, which you assign to certain capexes in the Fuel Type dropdown within that capex’s details.
Cost per unit
This fuel cost will be factored into your operational costs.
Changes made to fuel cost will ripple out into operational costs.