CropPlanThe business of microgreens
Small footprint.
Serious potential.
Fast harvests, compact growing spaces and a premium fresh product. Microgreens can be highly profitable when production meets real demand.
Try your numbers ↗Small trays. Your numbers.
Move the sliders. Explore the possibilities. See what is left after paying for your time and production.
Example tray volumes, not market benchmarks. Prices and costs stay editable.
Estimated monthly result
- Materials & production
- Your time
- Monthly overheads
- Per harvested tray
- Margin on revenue
Check your inputs. Trays and yield must be above zero; sold percentage must be between 0 and 100. Other values cannot be negative.
Illustrative assumptions, not a forecast. All amounts in euros, before tax. Labour is included. Add rent, equipment depreciation, deliveries, insurance and any other expenses to monthly costs. Change the yield to match your crop and tray size.
Grow a crop.
Build a business.
Start with the customers you can reach. Then choose crops, test your yields and plan repeat harvests around their orders.
Explore the crops ↗Short production cycles
Many microgreens reach harvest in 7–21 days. Faster cycles let you test demand and adjust the next sowing.
Production that fits your space
Tray-based production can use shelving. Budget for lighting, ventilation and the space each crop actually needs.
Freshness as a selling point
A short shelf life makes dependable local supply valuable. Find repeat buyers before scaling up.
Good numbers start with real costs.
A planning budget helps you account for production and investment before scaling. Use your own local prices and measured yields.
The University of Missouri’s 2024 budget is a useful reference for structuring costs. Its US market assumptions are separate from the illustrative euro scenarios above.
Read the published budget ↗Plan for repeat customers.
Before expanding, validate which crops local buyers want, their weekly quantities and delivery days. Run trial batches, record sellable yield and calculate the cost of each harvested tray. CropPlan helps schedule production; the calculator helps you test your assumptions.
Compare crop production cycles ↗Read the research
University of Missouri · Microgreens Planning Budget (2024)
Penn State Extension · Growing Microgreens