What is the cost structure of a typical winery / vineyard?   What does
a typical P&L look like?   What are the variables?

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Request for Question Clarification by omnivorous-ga on 23 Sep 2005 11:01 PDT

Shivpora --

Their income statements look kind of like other companies.  What may
be unique are depreciation rules regarding any agricultural stock
owned (and those vary somewhat by country).

Would a list of public companies in the business be useful to you, as
they'll have detailed annual reports?

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

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Clarification of Question by shivpora-ga on 28 Sep 2005 18:39 PDT

I am more interested in how small to mid sized vineyards look P&L
wise.in the US.. not looking for larger or Public companies
necessarily.  Wuld liek to know what is the typical cost structure and
what is the payback period etc etc.

You will find the information you are looking for at the University of
California Davis
From the website, the left hand sidebar click on Outreach. The
returned page will have many cost analysis studies, incuding grapes. I
believe it is under the Current Cost and Return Studies.
http://www.agecon.ucdavis.edu/

This page may be of interest-http://wineserver.ucdavis.edu/

Also of interest may be couses available the UC Davis Extension Here-
http://universityextension.ucdavis.edu/courses/courselisting.asp?unit=AG&prgList=AGR&coursearea=Agriculture

I use their pest management page way over here in France for pest
management of our olive trees. This one is for grapes which is what
you are interested in
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/selectnewpest.grapes.html

And this one I think is the BEST for getting an idea of processes that
are needed behind the numbers you are looking for

http://fruitsandnuts.ucdavis.edu/

I hope this information helps you.