CERES Professional
Optimize farm hydraulics and predict your commercial farm production, power requirements, energy consumption, operating cost, and profitability.
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Ceres-Pro, a complex proprietary modeling software, is used by our team for advanced Aquaponics Farm Designs.
With your Ceres-Professional membership, you gain access to Ceres-Pro through our team of designers proficient in its complex features. Share project information, and we’ll guide you through your farm design and operation journey.
General settings
• Indoor farm or greenhouse?
• Allocated area width
• Budget
Climate
• Farm location climate
• Climate control requirements
• Accessibility
Required production
• Required production for each selected plant
• Market assessment
• Selection of the highest revenue makers
• Selection of the optimum growing media for each plant
Growing area sizing
• Farm length
• Number of growing layers
• Germination and Nursery requirement
• Equipment requirement
Fish engine sizing
• Mineral requirements
• Fish food requirement
• Fish quantity
• Fish tank optimum size
• Biotreatment system.
Hydraulics design
• Optimum hydraulics design
• Optimum pipe size
• Pumps power
• Climate control hydraulics
Energy
• Greenhouse climate control
• Aquaponics climate control
• Lighting
• Hydraulics energy
• Oxygenation
• Solar system design
OPEX
• Compensation
• Energy
• Consumables
• Fish
• Seeds
CAPEX
• Greenhouse
• Aquaponics system
• Climate control
• Solar system
• Installation duration
• Training and coaching
Profitability
• Farm P&L
• Monthly revenue
• Profitability
• Return on Assets
• Profit margin
Operation
• Seeding schedule
• Growing plan
• Harvesting schedule
Support
• Priority support
• Remote coaching
• Onsite coaching (quoted on demand)
TTo ensure proper communication, we usually have three video calls throughout the project.
We also set up a group on your preferred social media app.
Your membership also includes access to our continuously evolving learning center.
One-on-One
Two hours of One-on-One video conference with Regis, AHAS founder and equipment designer, and Ceres. This time can be split into several sessions.
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Learning center
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Farm Design Example
Step 1
Select your production target
Batch small plants include:
• Lettuce: batavia, butterhead, green coral,red coral, green oak, red oak, cos/romaine, frilice, and iceberg,
• vegetables: baby kan lan, pak choy, cabbage, and morning glory
Uo to six different plants can be added to the production schedule.
Enter the required quantities for each selected plant
Adjust the suggested sales price for your market.
Germination and nursery efficiency are proposed but can be adjusted.
Ceres computes the growth plan, the required growing area, and the revenue associated to each plant.
Continous small plants include rocket arugula, mizuna, spinach, and watercress.
Up to three different plants can be added to the production schedule.
Enter the required quantities for each selected plant
Adjust the suggested sales price for your market.
Ceres computes the growth plan, the required growing area, and the revenue associated to each plant.
The growing plan includes a non productive vegetative period and a productive period.
New plants are prepared an put in the farm while the older plant is still producing, but for some plants there may be a non-productive transition period.
Cooking herbs include chives, parsley, rosemary, mint, thyme, and sage.
Up to four different plants can be added to the production schedule.
Enter the required quantities for each selected plant
Adjust the suggested sales price for your market.
Ceres computes the growth plan, the required growing area, and the revenue associated to each plant.
Midsize plants include chili, bell pepper, kale, celery, basil, coriander, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, okra, and edamame.
Up to three different plants can be added to the production schedule.
Enter the required quantities for each selected plant
Adjust the suggested sales price for your market.
Ceres computes the growth plan, the required growing area, and the revenue associated to each plant.
The growing plan includes a non productive vegetative period and a productive period.
New plants are prepared an put in the farm while the older plant is still producing, but for some plants there may be a non-productive transition period.
Tall plants include cherry tomato, tomato, cucumber, bitter gourd, squash, eggplant, green beans, pumpkin, melon, watermelon, cannabis vegetative, and cannabis flowering
Up to three different plants can be added to the production schedule.
Enter the required quantities for each selected plant
Adjust the suggested sales price for your market.
Ceres computes the growth plan, the required growing area, and the revenue associated to each plant.
The growing plan includes a non productive vegetative period and a productive period.
New plants are prepared an put in the farm while the older plant is still producing, but for some plants there may be a non-productive transition period.
Please let us know if you need more tabs for any type of plants.
We are also testing more plants in our lab and farms and continously update the plant datase using our production results.
In addition to Ceres-Production, Ceres-Pro assigns the optimum growing media for each plant.
Step 2
Size your farm
Enter your farm width.
Specify the size of your grow beds: grow bed width and growing area width.
Define the width of the walkway between the lines, and the desired walkways on each sides of the greenhouse.
Ceres will calculate the length of the greenhouse, and advise on the width of the side walkways.
You can adjust any parameters at will.
If you plan to reduce the size of the greenhouse, a multi-level option can be selected.
Step 3
Design your fish engine
Ceres computes the fish food and fish requirements, and propose a number and size of fish tank. You can adjust these paramaters, as well as the fish tank height. The water level is 20cm below the top of the fish tank.
Ceres provides the fish weight per tank.
Assuming you have 4 fish tanks, you will harvest in the “big fish” tank as necessary during a quarter of the fish lifetime. Then you will replace the fish in this tank with small fingerlings. The next tank becomes you “harvesting tank.
Ceres recommends a feeding rate per tank, based on the fish age, and therefore food consumption.
Ceres will give you an alarm if the quantity of fish per tank is too high.
Step 4
Predict your mineralization requirements
Ceres computes the mineral consumption for each plant and advise on mineralization supplement.
Step 5
Your weekly batch small plants seeding and optimum growing density plan
To maintain an continous production, you will seed weekly.
Ceres provides the optimum seeding plan for you desired production.
Step 6
Designing the energy systems
In this step, using the Ceres-Pro hydraulics module, we design the optimum hydraulics system using optimum pipe size and pump power.
We also finalize, using the Ceres-Pro Energy module:
• The energy requirement to grow the plants in the specific climate environment.
• The type of building (greenhouse or indoor, thermal insulation)
• The hydraulics system (pipe size, pumps, oxygenation system)
• The lighting required
• The ventilation system
• The solar energy system
Our farm requires a power of 16kW.
The solar system will be made of 2 arrays of 16 pannels to produce 100kWh per day.
We elected not to use energy storage for night energy requipments.
Step 7
CAPEX required
Ceres-Professional CAPEX module calculate the cost of building this farm is USD 92,000.
This cost includes:
• The aquaponics farm
• The greenhouse
• The solar energy system
• Piping and installation
• Training and coaching
Step 8
Operating costs
Ceres-Professional OPEX module calculate the farm operating cost
The monthly operating cost is $2,180
The operating costs include:
• Compensation: 2 workers: $1,000
• Electricity over solar provided: $493
• Water replacement: $2
• Fish and fish food: $168
• Seedlings: $93
• Mineral supplements: $71
• Consumables: $44
• Miscellaneous costs: $160
• Maintenance contract: $200
An energy storage system would require an additional CAPEX of $36,000 with a payout time of 6 years, to reduce the oprating cost to $1,630. This option was not implemented.
Step 9
Profitability
The Ceres Profitability module provides the business fiancial information.
With a depreciation period of 48 month, or 4 years, the monthly profit during depreciation is over $680 and $2,300 after depreciation.
The Return on Assets is over 30%, and the project payout time is 34 months, or 2.8 years.
The farms profitablity after tax is 46%.
Step 10
Operations
Ceres Operations module assist with the farm operations. It provides updated seeding plans, mineralization monitoring, production monitoring, and assist with daily tasks.
The farm in this example exists and will starts producing in April 2026.
The production, operating costs, and revenue will be published here.
Production
Date
Product
Weight
Revenue
Green Oak
Kg
$
Cos
Kg
$
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