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  • From: road's end farm <organic101 AT linkny.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Certified scales
  • Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:32:46 -0500


On Nov 28, 2006, at 9:24 PM, cjmaness AT juno.com wrote:

Maybe that is what it is. The time. When I got to thinking about it,
I realized that my husband and I are swamped, from the time we get to
market until we leave. If we had to stop and weigh out everything,
well I honestly don't know how we would do it. [. . .] . I know from the record keeping perspective it would be much easier if we knew how many pounds of tomatoes or
whatever we were actually taking to market.
Carla


Oh you can do that without weighing things at market. Just weigh them on the farm, after packing for market and before loading them on the truck. If you want to know how much you actually sold, weigh also everything that comes back unsold.

If you do this on everything it is a large hassle, but still less of one than weighing things at market, and/or writing down at market as you go what you're selling. (I know at least one vendor who does write everything down as she sells it, but she sells baked goods, not produce.) I have to weigh (or count) everything in and out as part of organic audit trail.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale



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