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- From: Willie McKemie <mf AT austinfarm.org>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Prices: New Potatoes
- Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 12:53:54 -0500
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 09:04:00AM -0500, Tom Circle wrote:
> What would be a good price for new red potatoes. We grow in high tunnels
> with an early market and get good prices but as soon as garden potatoes
> start coming in the prices get cut in half. If I can get the higher price
> why won't the other growers keep their prices up.
Small potatoes (and early ones of any size), we get $2 for a ~2lb bag.
As the season progress, we up the weight of the bags of larger potatoes
and continue to charge $2. About 3lb for $2 is as low as we go. We
find we can always get $1/lb for small potatoes. These are field
grown red potatoes; white potatoes do not normally produce well around
here.
It is completely normal and to be expected that prices decline as
supply increases. Think "free market" and "supply and demand".
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[Market-farming] Prices: New Potatoes,
Tom Circle, 06/02/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] Prices: New Potatoes,
Willie McKemie, 06/02/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] Prices: New Potatoes,
Sue Wells, 06/02/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] Prices: New Potatoes,
BillOhio, 06/02/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Prices: New Potatoes, Willie McKemie, 06/02/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] Prices: New Potatoes,
BillOhio, 06/02/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] Prices: New Potatoes,
Sue Wells, 06/02/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] Prices: New Potatoes,
Willie McKemie, 06/02/2007
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