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  • From: "jay gee" <JayGee AT jghelp.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] price barriers
  • Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 14:54:27 -0700 (PDT)

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 12:08:15 -0500, nancy a parker wrote:

> I grow and sell black raspberries. Only one in my area that I know of.
> Last year I tried to get $6 a quart or $4 a pint and no one bought
> without complaining. Knowing how much work it is to pick them I eat them
> rather than lower the price.
> Anyway this time I packaged them in reused 1/2 Pint containers from
> berries I bought over the year and priced them at $2.50. NO one said a
> word and gladly paid. That is $10 a quart and I didn't even feel guilty

Nancy,

Try selling them at the next market for $ 3.00 per half pint
and buy some fresh containers.


jay gee
not a farmer -- but interested in farming



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