See your return
before you spend a dollar.

Your operation.
Your total return.

Select your crop and water source to load real-world economics, then adjust every input to match your own numbers. Your net profit contribution — yield profit after harvest cost, plus water & power savings, less the lease — updates instantly.

Figures are estimates for planning purposes based on measured results at Etchandy Farms and the University of Arizona, and on published crop economics. Actual returns vary by soil, climate, crop variety, water rights, and market price. Yield profit is shown net of the harvest & pack share of gross (an adjustable default per crop; the 62% strawberry figure is from the 2024 UC Central Coast cost study). Water savings are applied only to the water-and-power share of the blended rate (60%). “Blended irrigation cost” is the all-in annual cost of delivering water to an acre — water itself plus pumping electricity, irrigation labor, and fertilizer/fertigation. Citrus and avocado defaults reflect Southern California grower cost ranges (citrus ~$3,500–4,000/acre on well water, ~$8,000 on district water; avocados ~$4,500–5,000 on well, ~$9,000–10,000 on district); other crops are scaled from typical California water-use and input figures. All inputs are fully adjustable to your operation. Vorterra pricing: one 4-inch unit covers 25 acres, billed only for the months the unit is inline — the irrigation season for annual crops, twelve months for perennials. Unit price and season length are both adjustable above; the pricing-fit readout applies two grower-side rules of thumb: lease at or under 10% of the in-season blended stack, and at or under one-third of projected return.