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  • From: Willie McKemie <mckemie AT austinfarm.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: NY Times: Small Organic Farmers Pull Up Stakes
  • Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 05:27:00 -0500


On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 09:20:10PM -0500, Errol Castens wrote:
> Phil, you should have let him keep deceiving himself instead of customers.
>
> It's folks like him that made it necessary, IMO, to have the USDA get
> involved in organics. It's the same principle as with a distant cousin who,
> after she and her husband retired from dairying, kept about five cows and
> milked by hand to sell to a small route of customers. I always suspected
> her standards of sanitation, but when I saw her salvaging used plastic milk
> jugs at an illegal dump -- not knowing whether they had contained only milk
> or maybe pesticides, and probably only intending to give them a cursory
> rinsing anyway -- I knew at that moment why the gov't was in the food
> inspection business.
>
> Errol Castens
> Oxford, Mississippi
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: HackettShark AT aol.com
>
> A little trivia; I had a vendor show up at a maket selling cantaloupe
> and watermelon with a sign reading, No chemicals at all used on our farm.
> The sigh was stuck in a bucket of sand the bucket read DF Treflan. I told
> him he was not very convincing as far as believing his sign

You can not depend on your fellow marketers' honesty. 90-99% of your
fellow vendors will be "good folks", the other 1-10% will likely APPEAR
to be the same. Your market management MUST be equipped and prepared to
deal with the dishonesty of that small fraction of the sellers. Else,
they will degrade and lead to the decline of your market.

--
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