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  • From: John Hendrickson <jhendric AT wisc.edu>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] How do you determine market/wholesale price
  • Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:57:54 -0500

This would be an excellent service. Rodale/NewFarm had just such a system a few years ago that collected prices from various farmers markets around the country. The system fell apart, however, and my understanding is that growers did not have the wherewithall (i.e. time) to follow through on the reporting. What we need are market managers or students or some other third party to do the reporting. If anyone has ideas about how to get this done, I'd be curious to hear suggestions.

-John

John Paul Endicott wrote:

Thanks for all the great info on market prices! I'm working on
our farm's pricing as well as costs per unit. Would a national
and/or regional online pricing survey/list be of help to people. I imagine a simple website where farmers can log on and input the
prices they are charging for different produce- there would be a
checklist for different variables like growing conditions, farmers
market, wholesale, heirloom, etc... the numbers could be
compiled and accessible via regional maps/forums. Would small
farms benefit from such a resource?


Thanks again! Happy spring!


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