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  • From: Willie McKemie <mckemie AT austinfarm.org>
  • To: jay gee <jgj23 AT mindspring.com>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] What are your best crops and/or products?
  • Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 18:10:27 -0600
  • Resent-date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 18:14:00 -0600
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On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 03:15:58PM -0800, jay gee wrote:
> Willie,
>
> Thanks for the compliment.
>
> >Jay Gee gives good advice on branding. I put my name on everything

:-)

After posting, this wording occurred to me:
"While Jay Gee may have his head in a dark and smelly place on the
topic of wood burning, he gives ..."

Jay, I was thinking of you the other day when I was out defiling my
beautiful mesquite forest.

:-)

Actually, some additional comments on potatoes came to mind after the
fact:
Many years ago, I became dis-enchanted with potatoes because of low
prices. The past few years, I have again become a (red) potato grower.
We never sell many at a farmer's market, maybe 20-30 bags. But, it goes
on for a long while; we dig potatoes May-June and sell them through
August or September. I put them in 2-3 lb mesh bags depending on size;
2 lb of little ones, 2.5 lb of medium, 3 lb of big ones. The little
ones have less shelf life, so we try to get them sold first. $2
retail, $1 to grocery stores. I have been very surprised at how well
they sell at those (high) prices. I do have an under-utilized walk-in
cooler left over from when we had more peaches, but they seem to
keep well in an air conditioned room, too. If we don't get them all
sold, we eat them during the winter. If we don't eat them all, they
are February seed potatoes. Now I'm not talking about a lot of
potatoes, maybe 10-15,000 lb.

--
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Subject: RE: [Market-farming] Beef Sales promotion
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Jill Taylor Bussiere wrote:

> reminded me of a presentation I was at a few years ago - a couple
> that sells
> beef offered 1 pound of ground beef, or maybe it was 2, for free,
> I think it
> was. The invitations were made up, and perhaps put in the paper - I don't
> know. People had to show up on their farm, and they were able to
> get a free
> amount of groundbeef. While there, the couple was able to "sell" their
> product, give a tour, make a personal connection, etc. They said
> they came
> out very well in their promotion - people left with way more than their
> pound or two, and they gained some long term customers. They were in
> southern and eastern wisconsin, I believe.

If ground beef was the "problem" product this would be an effective thing as
I do recall hearing about this as well. Our ground beef is getting to be
known by more people who are health conscious and are amazed at the product.
One of our local good customers (who is a vegetarian) mentioned yesterday
that his kids really notice the difference in the roasts and ground beef. He
even notices the smell and lack of grease in the pan if he cooks some up.

So we included a pack of rib steaks for him to try out ... well his family
anyway:)





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