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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Market vehicle & load weight for the market
  • Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:45:47 -0500


On Nov 4, 2010, at 2:04 PM, Jimi Demetriou wrote:

I'm in the market for a new market vehicle for next season. I am wondering if anyone knows how much weight they haul to the market. What should I expect for a loaded trailer (200lb trailer, tables and boxes and ~3 acres of veggies under cultivation) during the high seasons?

I don't know about a trailer, not having used one. I do know that I found a 6 foot bed 1/2 ton pickup too small at the peak of season, and a 3/4 ton van is big enough. But I think a) that some of that was a matter of space allocation, at least as much as weight b) it's also going to depend a lot on what markets you go to -- some require more equipment than otherrs, and some it's going to make sense to take more produce than others. (3 acres under a really intensive bed system and 3 acres on wide spacing to allow larger equipment because that's what you had around would produce differently, also; and I don't know how many markets you're dividing the production by; so I can't really tell by that.)



-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale







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