[Market-farming] Anyone want tomatoes?

Flying S Farms farmerwantabe at hotmail.com
Sun Jul 26 08:37:15 EDT 2009


Kim where you located? We are seeing from $0.50 (grrrrrrrr) to $4.00!

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> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:27:18 -0500
> From: gartht at txcyber.com
> To: market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Anyone want tomatoes?
> 
> Greetings,
> Many vendors in our market lowered their prices this year. We were 
> unaware of this when we finally came to market with our tomatoes. We 
> had raised our prices. We are selling well, since most of the people at 
> our market are looking at quality, not price. The market is not 
> walmart, it costs money to raise quality, so people expect to pay for it. 
> 
> The heat wave of June/July caused our tomatoes to all ripen at the same 
> time, rather than a nice flow of tomatoes. But, we need to eat for the 
> next year, so canning, salsa, freezing etc is what we do with our less 
> than perfect/too old to sell tomatoes. 
> 
> Would a tax deduction do you good? Most Seniors/Nursing homes will give 
> you a tax reciept for your tomatoes and you could at least have the warm 
> fuzzies of knowing you made a bunch of old folks happy.
> 
> Our tomatoes are $6 a pound with cherries being $7.
> 
> Bright Blessings,
> Kim
> 
> jay sleichter wrote:
> > Well it seems that this year is the best tomato year in Kansas. I 
> > have so many picked and ready to sell, but not enough customers. Even 
> > large quantities at a discount price! I am afraid to know how much I 
> > have, (at least 400 pounds!) I know I need to pick probably another 
> > 200 pounds tomorrow.
> >
> > What do you do when you have too many tomatoes when lowering price 
> > doesn't work? I guess I will be canning salsa and tomatoes tomorrow 
> > or my chickens will be happy!
> >
> > We are selling tomatoes at $2.00 a pound, just FYI.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jay
> >
> >
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