User blog comment:MindoPod/Profit Potential of Crops Per Minute/@comment-36741106-20200510144316/@comment-24384762-20200510193325

Wheat is by far the most profitable, but you need to be able to sell it as fast or faster than you can harvest it. This requires 3 things: a silo with sufficient capacity to store wheat, plenty of Roadside Shop bins to sell wheat, and lots of Followers to buy wheat. You also need to be able to store enough wheat so it is the #1 or #2 most plentiful item in your silo. This will allow Farmhouse Visitors to request it where they will pay 28 coins for every 10 wheat. Even if you post bins of 10 for sale at the default price of 10 coins, and sell to Farmhouse Visitors for their asking price of 28 coins for 10, you still cannot produce and sell any other crops which is more profitable. "Wheating" generally fails because players do not have silo capacity, enough shop bins, or enough Followers. If you then add the drop items into your equations, wheat is by far the most profitable crop.