Market Prices & Sales

Record the prevailing price for each commodity at the markets and collection points your farm sells into. Prices are updated as often as your team receives them — at market day, from a trader call, or from a cooperative price bulletin — so the record reflects the reality at the gate.

Price history is charted for each commodity so farmers can see seasonal patterns and choose when to hold stock and when to sell. Knowing that maize prices typically rise in the dry season gives farmers with storage capacity a real advantage.

Keep a record of traders, processors, cooperatives, and exporters the farm sells to, with their contact details, typical payment terms, and transaction history. The register makes it easy to compare buyers and build the relationships that lead to better prices.

Log each sale with the buyer, commodity, grade, quantity, price per unit, and total received. The sale is linked to the storage batch so the stored quantity decreases correctly, and the revenue figure is captured for gross margin reporting.

Record forward and spot contracts with buyers — agreed volume, price, grade, and delivery schedule. Contract records show what has been delivered against the commitment and how much remains outstanding, so production plans can be aligned to contracted obligations.

Sales revenue rolls up to the enterprise level — maize, beans, dairy, poultry — so managers see what each part of the farm earned in a season without building a spreadsheet. Revenue sits alongside costs in the farm economics module to produce the gross margin per enterprise.