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  • From: Jay Sleichter <jaysleichter AT yahoo.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Pricing tomatoes
  • Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 05:39:54 -0700 (PDT)

$4.00 a pint for Cherry tomatoes, you are killing me! I only can get $2.00-$2.50 a pint here in Kansas. I know they are worth $4.00, but I don't want to bring them home.  This year pricing is very touchy.  $0.50 too high and things don't sell, PERIOD!  Maybe it is the markets I attend.  I am having to take a little less for things to get them sold.  A sign of the times I guess.  Example, I took 28 baskets to my Wednesday market, price $2.50 each.   Last year I was selling 50-60 pints a week there last year. This year, I sold 8.  On Saturday, I took 35 baskets and charged $2.00, sold 34. I hold the same price the whole season too!

I grow 11 different kinds of cherry tomatoes.  I put them in mixed baskets and individual variety baskets. 

Big tomatoes, heirloom or hybrid we are asking $2.50 a pound.   We want more, but people are balking a little at that price too.  Sold out, but I only took 15 pounds.  We will see what happens this week.

Jay

Jay's Jellies, Produce and More
Clay Center, Kansas
www.jaysjellies.com
http://highfarming.blogspot.com/

--- On Sun, 6/27/10, Harriet Allen <hattie_allen AT yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Harriet Allen <hattie_allen AT yahoo.com>
Subject: [Market-farming] Pricing tomatoes
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Sunday, June 27, 2010, 6:51 PM

Well, the tomatoes are just about to start ripening here in Delaware (an early year with all the very hot weather we have had).  I am once again trying to determine what to charge for my heirlooms and my hybrids.  I wanted to know what the going rate is for people in other areas of the country and would appreciate any feedback.  I use a scale and don't put them in quarts.  While the quarts are convenient, I feel I am practically giving them away when I sell them that way.
 
I do stick with $4 per pint for my heirloom cherry tomatoes in mixed pints.  I heap them up pretty good though.  But I let the price stand for the whole season, even after others are dropping their prices.  I do not seem to sell any more or less by lowering the price and extra tomatoes go to a couple of restaurants for a wholesale price.
 
Any thoughts?
 
Hattie
Hattie's Garden
Lewes, DE 19958

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