COOPERATIVE
KENTUCKY
STATE
UNIVERSITY
FACT SHEET
Determining Potential Yield and Sales
for the Growing Season
Dr. Leigh Whittinghill, Assistant Professor of Organic Agriculture
This worksheet is designed to help you determine how much your farm or garden will yield for the growing season. This information can then be used to determine potential sales. The following instructions and table will help you gather the information you need to calculate your potential yield and sales. There are two versions of the table. Table 1 is if you are planning to grow in rows. Table 2 is for those planning to grow smaller quantities in raised beds or containers or using intensive growing practices. The following instructions will indicate what to do if instructions for the two tables differ.
Enter each crop you plan to grow in the following table. These crops should match the crops you have outlined in your planting calendar and/or farm or garden map.
Enter the average crop yield expected in the following table.
If you are planting in rows (Table 1), this will be in yield per 100 feet of row. This information can be found for many crops in Table 15 in UK ID-128 Home Vegetable Gardening in Kentucky (Available at https://grayson.ca.uky.edu/files/id-128_home_vegetable_gardening_in_ky.pdf) and other sources.
If you are using intensive gardening practices (Table 2), your average yield information may be a yield per area or you can use yield per 100 feet of row. Be sure to indicate the units and convert it to a measurement in feet, inches, square feet, or square inches to match the units used in your crop spacing guidelines.
If you are growing your crops in rows, continue with the following instructions for Table 1:
3. Enter the growing area for each crop. This will be in row feet and will correspond to the information in your Seed and Transplant needs worksheet, or your planting plan or farm/garden map.
Enter the growing area for each crop. This will be in row feet and will correspond to the information in your Seed and Transplant needs worksheet, or your planting plan or farm/garden map.
Multiply the average crop yield (column 2) by the growing area (column 3). Enter the information in the expected yield column.
If you are using intensive gardening practices continue with the following instructions for Table 2:
If your yield information is in yield per 100 feet of row you can convert to yield per plant using the following:
Enter the distance between plants within a row for each crop. This information can be found on your seed and transplant needs worksheet, or:
If you are planting in rows, record this information in inches. You may be able to find this information from many sources,