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  • From: "Catherine S" <farmerwantabe AT hotmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] record keeping
  • Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:34:35 -0600

Lucy I'd like a copy of your record keeping pdf. I've sort of done the same thing but on pieces of paper, then I have to collate them...the end is lost papers and taking to much time. Thanks Catherine




 


From: Lucy Goodman <goodows AT infinet.com>
Reply-To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] record keeping
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 06:31:18 -0500


I do a non web based record keeping for the veggies I sell at market. I have made a dummy sheet that allows me to write down everything we bring to market, how many units, the size of the unit and the price. there is also a place to do the same with things we sell by the pound. Before going to market I fill this out by hand (and often do more filling out at market when i discover items that did not get put on the market tally sheet). At market we simply put hash marks for each item sold-this can break down when we get heavy sales and there is not time to mark what people bought but for the most part this works for us. 

This system tells us how much we brought to market, what we brought to market, how well things were selling and finally how much $$ we made from each crop. With the final number we can easily figure out how much we are making per square foot on each crop by figuring out how many beds we used for a crop and dividing the total square footage of land by gross made on a certain crop. For example, if we made $1000 on butternut squash and use 4 50' x 4' beds that would be 800 square feet divided by $1000 which means we made 80¢ per foot for the squash (these are not real numbers, just examples)

At the end of the week/month/season you get all the tally sheets together and start figuring out how much sold of each item and than put that information into your book keeping program.

If you had a hand held device like a blackberry or other pda that could be used at market for keeping track of each crop as it sells and that info could be input directly into your book keeping program with no data entry on your part. but I am enough of a Luddite to steer clear of such new fangled things.

if you want, Carla I can send you and example of what the sheet (in pfd form) I use, off list. Just let me know.

Lucy




 


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