@Autumn_Ridge_Hemp, where are you geographically? I just pitched this down in Louisiana after seeing a couple farms in Arkansas just north of there crush it with this last year. (It did even better in Colorado with even more plants per acre).
We’ve got a early finishing genetic that matures fast, grows vertical, and is very mold resistant so you can pack them in super tight per acre and get your space’s worth. We’re recommending as much as 10,000+ in some cases but let’s use 8,000 per acre as an example. (I know it sounds high but trust me, all the major players are getting tighter and making crops more ideal for machine harvesting). I’m telling people 1/2 lbs per plant but saw more than one farm double that last year.
We can do the seeds for only $.50 (or less for big bulk) and these are all feminized with reports (and germ reports) at almost 100%. We even have a propagation system where we’ll come to your farm and put the seeds in trays and into hoop houses for only another $.50. Also, if you’re a second year farmer, which it sounds like you are, we can defer some payments to the end of the year. Stupid good deal.
So if you do 8,000 an acre and get a 1/2 lbs per plant, that’s 4,000 lbs per acre. Really good compared to lots of farms last year but very doable with these genetics.
If I use HempBenchmarks worst sales numbers as a gauge with conservative conversion numbers to crude, iso and distillate, this is what you’re looking at:
Biomass @$4/lbs = $16,000 per acre
Crude @$275/lbs = $44,000 per acre (50% to farmer)
Isolate @$700/kg = $62,500 per acre (40% to farmer)
T-Free @1,600/kg = $145,000 per acre (30% to farmer)