Break-Even
Calculator
How many litres of milk do you need to produce each day just to cover your costs? Find your number, and see if you're above or below it.
Calculate Your Break-Even Point
Add up feed, vet and medicine, breeding, worker wages, transport and any other regular costs for the month.
At your current production, you're producing about 15.6 L/day above break-even — that's your margin of safety.
What is a break-even point?
Your break-even point is the amount of milk you need to sell each day so that your income exactly equals your costs — no profit, no loss. Anything you produce above that point is profit. Anything below it means the farm is running at a loss that month.
Most farmers know roughly how much milk they produce and what price they get, but far fewer have added up their total monthly costs — feed, vet and medicine, AI/breeding, worker wages, transport, electricity and loan repayments. Once you have that number, this calculator does the rest.
What to do with your result
- If you're below break-even, look first at your biggest cost — for most farms, that's feed.
- Small increases in milk yield per cow (better feeding, health, breeding) push you further above break-even.
- Recalculate every month — your break-even point changes as feed prices and milk prices move.
Let KilimoDairy calculate this for you, every month
Finance & Reports builds your Profit & Loss and break-even point automatically from your milk, feed, health and breeding records — updated every time you add a record.