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What's Your Fully Loaded Cost Per Pound?

Build a planning estimate from the costs you choose to include: facility, labor, supplies, compliance, financing, depreciation, and more. Compare scenarios without pretending the result replaces your books.

🌿 Facility Setup
Flower Rooms / Zones Active rooms in flower rotation
Lights Per Zone For per-light cost metrics
Veg in Flower Room Days plants occupy flower room before flip (0 if separate veg room)
Flower Cycle Length Days from flip to chop
Room Turnaround Days between chop and next batch in
Total Room Occupancy Full cycle per room (auto-calculated)
66 days
Yield Per Harvest Dry flower weight (lbs) per room
lbs
💰 Annual Cost Scope
Total Annual Costs Use one consistent cash-planning or accounting scope
$
or
Worksheet Annual Total $0

When the worksheet has items filled in, it overrides the total above.

The model treats the entered flower rooms as comparable and allocates annual costs evenly by occupied room-day. Run separate scenarios or allocate costs first when rooms or facilities differ materially.

📊 Revenue & Tax/Fee Treatment
Selling Price Per Pound Product price before any added tax or fee
$
Adjustment Treatment Choose the formula that matches your situation
Effective Adjustment Rate Enter a verified rate for your transaction
%
No tax or fee adjustment is being applied. Verify applicability and tax base with your accountant or state authority.
Trim revenue & other offsets
Trim Yield Per Harvest Pounds of trim per room
Trim Price Per Pound Net revenue retained per pound
$
Trim Used for Other Products Pre-rolls, extracts (lbs)
Other Revenue Per Harvest Net revenue retained after related costs
$
Your Cost Per Pound
$0
planning estimate based on the costs entered
Break-Even Selling Price $0
Estimated Surplus Per Pound $0
Estimated Surplus Per Harvest $0
Harvests Per Year 0
Annual Estimated Surplus $0
Cost Per Light $0
Yield Per Light 0 lbs

Surplus means retained flower revenue minus the modeled cost after entered trim and other revenue offsets. It is not accounting or tax profit unless your chosen inputs and scope support that interpretation.

What If Your Yield Changed?
+0%
Adjusted Cost Per Pound
$0
Annual Revenue Difference
$0
Monthly Revenue Difference
$0

Scenario assumes the entered selling price and annual cost base stay unchanged as yield moves. Added production, processing, sales, and tax costs may reduce the result.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What costs should I include in my cost per pound?
Start by choosing a consistent scope. A cash-planning view and an accrual accounting view do not include every item the same way. Include costs attributable to the facility and period, value owner labor consistently, and avoid counting the same equipment through depreciation, purchase cost, and loan principal. Interest and lease costs may belong in scope; owner or investor distributions generally are not operating costs. Use your accountant's definitions for official reporting.
How do you calculate harvests per year?
Harvests per year = (number of comparable flower rooms × 365) ÷ total room occupancy. Occupancy includes veg time in the flower room, flower days, and turnaround. Four rooms with 0 veg days, 63 flower days, and 3 turnaround days model 4 × 365 ÷ 66 = 22.1 harvests per year. This is a full-utilization scenario; downtime or unequal rooms require separate assumptions.
What's a competitive cost per pound for commercial cultivation?
There is no universal competitive number. Compare facilities only when accounting scope, facility type, quality grade, wholesale channel, tax treatment, and local market are comparable. The useful question is whether your fully loaded estimate leaves enough room between retained selling price and cost for the risks your operation carries.
Why does yield change cost per pound?
Yield is the denominator in the calculation, so spreading the same entered cost base over more saleable pounds lowers the modeled cost per pound. Real production increases can also add nutrients, processing, testing, packaging, sales, and tax costs, so the scenario is not automatically profit.
How should I model a tax or fee?
First verify the rate, tax base, and responsible party. Choose “added to buyer invoice” when the adjustment is added on top of the product price. A 24% added tax on a $350 product price produces a $434 customer total. Choose “deducted from seller proceeds” only when the percentage is withheld from the selling price. This calculator is planning math, not jurisdiction-specific tax advice.

Understanding Your Cost Per Pound

Cost per pound is a useful operating estimate, but it is only as complete as the costs and saleable output entered. Define the accounting scope first, then use the same scope when comparing rooms, facilities, or scenarios.

What Goes Into Cost Per Pound

The worksheet offers more than 25 line items so commonly separated costs can be brought into one planning view. Include only costs that belong in the period and scope you are modeling, and avoid mixing facility-wide costs with a single-room output figure.

Why the Yield Denominator Matters

Many entered costs may be fixed or semi-fixed over the scenario period. Spreading that same modeled cost base over more saleable pounds lowers cost per pound mathematically. That does not mean extra output is free: production, processing, testing, packaging, sales, and taxes may also increase.

Treat the what-if slider as a fixed-cost scenario. It shows how the denominator changes if the entered cost base and selling price stay constant. Use your own variable-cost assumptions before treating the result as margin or profit.

Yield, saleable-grade mix, room utilization, turnaround, labor, energy, waste, downtime, and purchasing can all matter. The right priority depends on the facility's own numbers and constraints.

Compare Like With Like

Cost per pound changes with accounting scope, facility type, utilization, quality grade, saleable yield, market, and channel. A number from another operator is only useful when those definitions match. Your own room-to-room and run-to-run comparisons are usually the cleaner starting point.

Reducing Cost Per Pound Systematically

Treat cost per pound as a repeatable operating review, not a one-time answer. Start with a consistent accounting scope, then model one plausible change at a time and verify the result against actual production and financial records.

Review crop timing, saleable yield, labor, energy, downtime, waste, purchasing, and harvest-to-harvest variation against your own records. Use the Grow Efficiency Scorecard for reference-band scenarios, or the Yield Consistency Check to quantify relative variation in recent harvests.

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These tools exist because I needed them. I'm Eric, commercial grower and software engineer in Michigan. I built Growgoyle to run my own facility and these calculators are just a piece of it. If you're running a grow and want to talk shop, text me.

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