Proceeds, n. pl.
That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc.
Shades of meaning
Fernald has no entry of its own for proceeds; he lists it under harvest, profit.
Where he writes about it:
The word proceeds is chiefly used of the return from an investment: we speak of the produce of a farm, but of the proceeds of the money invested in farming. — from harvest