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  • From: Mike Brabo <mdbrabo AT att.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Pricing tomatoes
  • Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:05:18 -0500

Hi Hattie
I've found this website especially helpful in pricing various items, including tomatoes.
I run the report for tomatoes across ALL markets.  Hope this helps.

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

Mike
Vesterbrook Farm       
http://www.vesterbrookfarm.com/

Clarksville, Missouri
Mississippi River Bluffs region, zone 6
   
      Certified Naturally Grown
http://www.naturallygrown.org/



On Jun 27, 2010, at 6:51 PM, Harriet Allen wrote:

Well, the tomatoes are just about to start ripening here in Delaware (an early year with all the very hot weather we have had).  I am once again trying to determine what to charge for my heirlooms and my hybrids.  I wanted to know what the going rate is for people in other areas of the country and would appreciate any feedback.  I use a scale and don't put them in quarts.  While the quarts are convenient, I feel I am practically giving them away when I sell them that way.
 
I do stick with $4 per pint for my heirloom cherry tomatoes in mixed pints.  I heap them up pretty good though.  But I let the price stand for the whole season, even after others are dropping their prices.  I do not seem to sell any more or less by lowering the price and extra tomatoes go to a couple of restaurants for a wholesale price.
 
Any thoughts?
 
Hattie
Hattie's Garden
Lewes, DE 19958
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