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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] How do you determine market/wholesale price?
  • Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:06:37 -0500

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:34:00 -0400, you wrote:

>I'm working on a cost/price analysis for a local co-ops farm and it got me
>wondering how most small farms determine their prices. Do you factor
>expenses and costs that go into the product? Do you generally follow the
>average market price? Do you factor in organic/local/no chemical into the
>price?
>
>I further started thinking about some sort of online survey- or a website-
>where local farmers could go to get average prices in their region and for
>the country. What do heirloom tomatoes sell for this year? How much does
>mixed green go per pound? Would this be helpful?
>
>Let me know how you figure out your selling prices? I'm very curious.
>

See: http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/Organic-Price-Report

This is a report on (specifically) organic produce, but maybe it will be of
some use to you.

Pat
-- North-Central Pennsylvania, USA
www.meadows.pair.com/articleindex.html

The world has enough for everyone's need,
but not enough for everyone's greed.

Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi.






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