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  • From: "Catherine S" <farmerwantabe AT hotmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Imports in our Local stores
  • Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:37:48 -0500

Not only do we need to be educating the consumer but also other vendors. There is a vendor in one of the markets I go to  that is constantly compairing his prices to the grocery store and sells lower than the stores. I've ask him over and over again not to compare farm fresh, locally grown produce to products that have been shipping from out of the country, washed with preservatives and stored in warehouses to the high nutrition value of fresh picked locally grown produce. It amazes me how many vendors are there just for the $. 




 


From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
Reply-To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Imports in our Local stores
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:39:10 -0400

Phil, that's my experience too. The people working produce today don't know what quality is and many don't care. It's really changed over the last 30 years. I think consumers share the blame for not being smart shoppers. Unfortunately, I think good growers are left with the challenge of educating the consumer.

Bill

> > > We recently did a little research on what is in our grocery store that we shop and was astounded to the amount of food in general that is shipped in from China.  It will really blow your mind when you start checking to point of origin.  In our local store all the frozen fish was shipped form china, frozen juice private label (store Label) was all shipped in from china, fresh grapes we all from Brazil, and it go's on and on.  We the American farmer are really getting the shaft when the grocer's tell us we as local growers cannot keep their shelves full year around.  It boils down to bottom line and nothing else, if the produce they sell looks like crap it probably is.  I had a produce manager tell me he could get 25 days out of most of his produce, so really fresh stuff doesn't really matter to him, all he wants is a really good price, or maybe I could just give it to him really cheap if I have a lot of surplus, I had one guy actually say that to me. >   > Phil from IowaGet a sneak peek of the all-new AOL.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Market-farming mailing list > Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming > >


William H. Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
St Charles Horticulture Research Center
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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