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Microgreens Grower
by Urban Micro
Calculating Your Crop Needs
So after that detailed intro to the principles of microgreens crop planning, let’s now see how this works to calculate your crop needs. Now, here we’ll take another quick step back to remind you why crop planning is so important. In short, the goal of crop planning is twofold: To ensure you have enough crop…
Course 9.3: Determining Microgreens Sowing Days
Your microgreens sowing date is determined by your desired harvest date and a crop’s days to maturity. Downloadable Audio: Embedded Video:
Course 9.4: Microgreens Record Keeping
Microgreens crop production record keeping is crucial for understanding your crop’s cycles and for making your system audit ready. Downloadable Audio: Embedded Video:
Course 9.5: Microgreens Variable Costs
Variable costs in your microgreens system change with your level of production and with the costs of inputs such as seeds, soil, and packaging. Downloadable Audio: Embedded Video:
Course 9.6: Microgreens Infrastructure Costs
You will have infrastructure costs when you start your business and as you grow your business that can delay how quickly you reach your profitability goals. Downloadable Audio: Embedded Video:
Course 9.7: Microgreens Business Costs
Simply running a business costs money! These costs can be easy to omit when doing financial planning. Downloadable Audio: Embedded Video:
Course 9.8: Microgreens Revenue Potential
Having realistic revenue goals is crucial to successful business planning. Repeat sales are an important aspect of steady revenue. Downloadable Audio: Embedded Video:
Microgreens Crop Planning – Part 1 of 3
In this first of three courses, we introduce the core principles of microgreens crop planning including the concepts of Growing To Order, Crop Cycles, Crop Stages and Production Tasks.
Microgreens Crop Planning Part 3 of 3
In this final course in the series we dive into spreadsheets to help you get started in creating your own crop planning tool!
Microgreens Crop Planning Tips
Welcome to the microgreens crop planning blog! Microgreens crop planning, you say? Is that really needed? Well, to each their own. But, in general, as you scale up your microgreens operation crop planning becomes important for managing your crop production relative to orders as well as for developing financial forecasts. But crop planning is valuable…
Principles of Microgreens Crop Planning
Let’s look at some important principles of crop planning to help set a strong foundation for us to work with in coming tutorials and blog posts While I will assume you know enough about microgreens production to even be considering looking at crop planning, let’s start with an overview of the growing process: Let’s assume…
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