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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Peddlers at Markets
  • Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:29:06 -0600


Like you, I don't understand a practice of limiting the maximum price. Let
the consumer set the the limits. The local grocery store isn't a very good
standard to go by.

Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center


-----Original Message-----
From: Del Williams <delannw AT dlogue.net>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 8:36 AM
Subject: [market-farming] Re: Peddlers at Markets


>You know what, Robert, I think that the people who sell for the cheapest
>prices are the big farms. For example, I came to the market with just 6
>dozen sweet corn (I grew) and priced at $3/dozen or 25 cents an ear for the
>single and elderly folks. In comes my good friend Mike with a truckload of
>sweet corn at $1.50 per dozen. I just hoped he would sell out fast so I
>could sell mine.
>
>We don't have a minimum price rule. Instead we have a maximum price rule.
>I have never understood it. The rule states that you can't sell above
local
>market price. The local market is the grocery store as far as I'm
>concerned. I think I routinely ignore the pricing rule and base mine on
>what I need to get to be profitable.
>
>Really, it's harder for me to compete with the big farms. Economies of
>scale I guess.
>
>Del Williams
>Farmer in the Del
>Clifton Il
>delannw AT dlogue.net
>
>
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