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  • From: "James H. Corey" <1corey AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] pricing
  • Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 11:06:39 -0400

Lynn,

I regularly pay $2.59 for a dozen free range eggs - wish I lived closer to
you! I think your price should be higher!

Pam
Rose Hill Plantation
Easley, SC

Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:

> The price difference for organic is amazing at the NewFarm site...I looked
> at Green Beans...in Philadelphia and Boston (the two closest markets)
> organic are over $60 per 25#, while conventional are $16 per 25#.
> "Certified" organic doesn't get you any more money here, but people know
> that I use organic methods, and I can get $1/pound for greenbeans through
> the whole season....possibly could get more. I'm raising all my prices
> this year...I'm tired of working so hard and being so poor.
>
> Does anyone go by the supermarket prices? I've had SO many customers tell
> me what the same item costs at the supermarket. Especially eggs...I raised
> my price for free-range to $1.50/dz, and have gotten a ton of complaints.
> Of course it's NOT the same item, but try to tell the cheapskates that
> (not a lot of food-savvy people here). At a local show, we did a
> side-by-side comparison of store egg vs. free-range. Besides being bright
> orange (compared to sickly yellow), the yolk of the free-range egg was
> literally twice the size of a large store egg. Hmmm...maybe I should do
> that comparison every week at the Farmers' Market. It's worth having to
> buy a dozen store eggs (the cats and dogs like them...*I* won't eat them).
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Cowbridge Farm
> Tioga County, PA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pat Meadows" <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
> To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 7:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] pricing
>
> > On Tue, 23 May 2006 23:45:24 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> > >2 things leap out at me:
> > >
> > >1) Many owners are agreeable if the price is right, otherwise they
> lose interest. Each item needs to be priced individually, and he will
> order what he thinks he needs. Your pricing will be compared to the other
> vendors that he buys from. For top quality freshness, you can expect
> about a 10% premium over the standard vendor. For example, when I first
> sold green bell peppers, I was able to get $14/bu. Purveyors price was
> $11.80/bu. Another farmer I know priced his at $18/bu and sold 6 bushel
> that entire season.
> > > Finding out what the purveyors prices are in your area is a
> whole different game, sometimes bordering on espionage.
> >
> > NewFarm.org has a table with wholesale prices of organic and
> > conventional foodstuffs in various regions of the country.
> > It's updated frequently, I think each week. It might be of
> > some help here:
> >
> > http://newfarm.org/opx/
> >
> > Pat
> >
> > --
> > Gardening in northern Pennsylvania.
> >
> > Eat local food, change the world for the better!
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