Last updated: 5 September 2026

Stardew Valley Crop Profit Calculator — Gold Per Day by Season

Which crop earns the most gold per day per tile? This calculator compares every plantable crop in Stardew Valley 1.6.15 — seed cost, growth time, regrowth cycle, harvests per season, and net profit per day — for Spring, Summer, Fall, and Greenhouse. Toggle the Tiller profession to see how the 10% bonus shifts the rankings.

01Crop Profit Calculator

02How Profit Per Day Is Calculated

Every number in the calculator is based on these rules, which mirror how the game actually works:

• Planted on Day 1 of the season. The earlier you plant, the more regrow cycles you squeeze out. The calculator always assumes Day 1 planting for a fair comparison.
• Season length = 28 days. A crop that takes 13 days to grow (Starfruit, Blueberry) can be planted on Day 1 and harvested on Day 14. If there are days left, a non-regrow crop can be replanted — the calculator counts all harvests that complete before Day 28.
• Non-regrow crops get replanted. A 4-day crop (Parsnip) fits 6 complete cycles in 28 days (Days 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21). Each replanting costs another seed. Net profit = harvests × (sell price − seed cost).
• Regrow crops use one seed, many harvests. You pay the seed cost once. Subsequent harvests only cost time (the regrow cycle). Net profit = (harvests × sell price) − seed cost.
• Profit per day = net profit ÷ 28. This normalises everything to a common scale so you can compare a 4-day crop that regrows with a 13-day crop that does not.
• Greenhouse uses a 112-day window (four seasons = one full year) because year-round crops like Ancient Fruit need more than 28 days to pay off the long initial grow time.

The Tiller profession multiplies every sell price by 1.10 before the profit calculation. Base quality (no fertiliser, no quality crops) is assumed throughout.

03Tiller Profession and Crop Prices

The Tiller profession is unlocked at Farming level 5. It adds 10% to the sell price of every crop — not artisan goods, just raw harvested crops. On a full farm of Starfruit this adds 75g per fruit (750 × 0.10). Over a whole season with two harvests per plot, that is 150g extra per tile.

Tiller is also the gateway to Artisan at Farming level 10, which adds 40% to all artisan goods (wine, juice, jelly, pickles). If you ever plan to use Kegs or Preserve Jars, picking Tiller at level 5 is mandatory — there is no other path to Artisan. This calculator only models raw crop sales, so the toggle shows the direct 10% boost on harvested crops, not the downstream artisan value.

If you are early in Year 1 and do not have Tiller yet, run the calculator with the toggle off to see realistic current numbers. Once you hit Farming level 5, flick it on — the rankings shift slightly but the top crops stay the same.

04Season-by-Season Top Crops

The calculator gives you the full picture, but here are the headline picks worth knowing before you open it:

• Spring — Strawberry leads (festival-limited): Strawberry seeds only go on sale at the Egg Festival on Spring 13, so the earliest you can plant is that day. With its 8-day grow and 4-day regrow, that leaves time for 2 harvests before the season ends, not 3 — still enough to make it the top raw-profit Spring crop once it's in the ground. If you missed the festival, Rhubarb is the best single-harvest crop, and Kale is the fastest-paying no-regrow option for early capital.
• Summer — Starfruit for value, Blueberry for volume: Starfruit delivers the highest income per tile (2 harvests at 750g minus 800g seeds (2 × 400g each) = 700g net/tile in 28 days). Blueberry produces 3 berries per harvest across 4 harvests for consistent, lower-risk income without needing Desert access.
• Fall — Sweet Gem Berry actually tops the gold-per-day chart, but it doesn't scale: It sells for 3,000g, costs 1,000g for the Rare Seed, and only fits one harvest in the season (2,000g net). Spread across 28 days that is still about 71g/day — higher than any other Fall crop, including Cranberries (~18g/day). The real catch is supply: the Traveling Cart only stocks Rare Seed in small quantities (usually 1, occasionally 5, and only on the days it visits), so you can't reliably plant a whole field of it the way you can with Pierre's-stocked crops. Run both scenarios in the calculator.
• Greenhouse — Ancient Fruit is the endgame: Once the initial 28-day grow is done, Ancient Fruit regrows every 7 days indefinitely. Over a full year (112 days) it produces 12 harvests at 550g for 6,600g gross — the best sustained income per tile in the game.