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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Pricing produce
  • Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 18:43:58 -0500

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:22:20 -0600, you wrote:

>
>I have a huge question. How do you decide what to charge customers? I have
>done my research by going to the grocery store (for produce) and I have gone
>online to check out transplant prices for the extra tomato and pepper plants
>I
>grew but don't have room in the field.
>
>How do I charge restaurants? How do you decide retail and wholesale prices?
>Any great advice or resources would be greatly appreciated?

NewFarm.org (online magazine) has wholesale prices, for a
lot of vegetables and fruits, also meats and dairy products.

They have primarily prices for organic produce, but in some
cases they also have conventional produce, for comparison.
I think they update it every week. This might help.

http://www.newfarm.org/opx/index.shtml

Pat

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