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Keg: Best Crops per Day in Stardew Valley

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Short answer: the Keg accepts 37 crops. Measured by extra gold per machine per day, the best are Coffee Bean (1,000g), Starfruit (384g) and Ancient Fruit (282g). The list changes a lot if you have only a few machines, because a machine that is always busy earns more from a fast, valuable crop than a slow, cheap one.

How to read the table

"Extra gold per machine per day" is the price of the product minus what the crop would have sold for raw, spread over the days the machine takes, assuming it is never idle and the Artisan profession is on. It is the number to use when you own fewer machines than you have crops. If you have more machines than crops, rank by total gold instead, which is what the Keg vs Preserves Jar tool does with your real harvest. Times use 1,600 game minutes per day, as the wiki states.

Crops for the Keg, best first
#CropMakesPriceDaysExtra gold per machine per day
1 Coffee Bean Coffee (5 needed) 150g 0.08 1,000g
2 Starfruit Wine 3,150g 6.25 384g
3 Ancient Fruit Wine 2,310g 6.25 282g
4 Hops Pale Ale 420g 1.41 281g
5 Wheat Beer 280g 1.09 233g
6 Pumpkin Juice 1,008g 3.75 183g
7 Pineapple Wine 1,260g 6.25 154g
8 Red Cabbage Juice 819g 3.75 149g
9 Melon Wine 1,050g 6.25 128g
10 Rhubarb Wine 924g 6.25 113g
11 Cauliflower Juice 550g 3.75 100g
12 Artichoke Juice 504g 3.75 92g
13 Yam Juice 504g 3.75 92g
14 Amaranth Juice 471g 3.75 86g
15 Kale Juice 345g 3.75 63g
16 Strawberry Wine 504g 6.25 61g
17 Beet Juice 315g 3.75 57g
18 Taro Root Juice 315g 3.75 57g
19 Radish Juice 282g 3.75 51g
20 Bok Choy Juice 252g 3.75 46g
21 Potato Juice 252g 3.75 46g
22 Grape Wine 336g 6.25 41g
23 Broccoli Juice 219g 3.75 40g
24 Cactus Fruit Wine 315g 6.25 38g
25 Cranberries Wine 315g 6.25 38g
26 Eggplant Juice 189g 3.75 34g
27 Garlic Juice 189g 3.75 34g
28 Tomato Juice 189g 3.75 34g
29 Powdermelon Wine 252g 6.25 31g
30 Corn Juice 156g 3.75 28g
31 Blueberry Wine 210g 6.25 26g
32 Summer Squash Juice 141g 3.75 26g
33 Green Bean Juice 126g 3.75 23g
34 Carrot Juice 109g 3.75 20g
35 Hot Pepper Wine 168g 6.25 20g
36 Parsnip Juice 109g 3.75 20g
37 Unmilled Rice Juice 93g 3.75 17g

Reading the top of the list

Coffee Beans come out first because Coffee takes only two hours per run and a Keg turns five beans into one. That is a real gain, but it isn't something you can scale: a single Coffee Bean plant doesn't give five beans a day, so a Keg usually waits for beans. Treat the top row as "good when you have the beans" and look further down for crops you grow in volume. Among fruit, Starfruit earns 384g a machine-day.

Each crop has its own page with profit per tile, fertilizer and the other machine. See also How many kegs do I need? for how many machines one plant keeps busy, and Best Greenhouse Setup for Money for the keg count that decides the greenhouse crop.

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Where these numbers come from

Game data comes from the Stardew Valley Wiki, cross-checked between at least two of its pages (last checked 2026-10-09). Profit figures are calculated by the same engine as our calculators. See the methodology, and tell us if something looks wrong in your game. All entries: Artisan Machines.