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  • From: "Bill Bradshaw" <billbradshaw AT hughes.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] sweet potato wholesale pricing
  • Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:44:30 -0500


Dallas Texas wholesale market today.
---SWEET POTATOES:  MARKET STEADY.  40 lb cartons AR No Grade Marks Orange    
Types med 16.00-16.50 jbo 18.00 CA No Grade Marks Orange Types jbo 17.00-18.50
MS No Grade Marks Orange Types med 15.50 jbo 16.50 TX U.S. No. 1 Orange Types 
23.00-24.00 No Grade Marks Orange Types med 15.50-16.50 jbo 16.50-17.50       
Bill in Texas
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] sweet potato wholesale pricing

HOLY SMOKES! $2- $4 a pound for sweet potatoes.

I am the highest price person and I am charging $1.25 a pound.  Most people at our markets are at $1 a pound and several are under a $1. 

I don't know a wholesale price, but at $2 a pound, I would say $1.00 a pound.

Jay

Jay's Jellies, Produce and More
Clay Center, Kansas
www.jaysjellies.com
http://highfarming.blogspot.com/

--- On Fri, 10/14/11, Beth Spaugh <lists AT rhomestead.com> wrote:

From: Beth Spaugh <lists AT rhomestead.com>
Subject: [Market-farming] sweet potato wholesale pricing
To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Friday, October 14, 2011, 4:25 PM

I would like to hear what folks are selling sweet potatoes for in bulk or wholesale.  I have two kinds of requests – large orders of pretty ones for resale, and restaurants willing to trim off the mouse chewed areas.

 

I was so heartened a month ago to see sweet potatoes priced at $1.29/lb in the grocery store, but when I checked today they were down to 74 cents/lb.  When I checked the AMS marketing service for wholesale prices a month ago, it was $1/lb.

 

I’ve been charging $2/lb at markets, and did so all last fall.  Others were charging as much as $4/lb, but they have a cult following who don’t question anything.

 

And I am incredibly happily energized – our market tomorrow just got cancelled because of high winds and rain (and high of 50).  I wasn’t looking forward to it at all.  Next week we move inside until Christmas. But, oh, it is exciting to have a “free” day.  A chance to catch up on lots of indoor (including hoophouse) things. Smile, smile, smile.  The money from sales would have been nice, but it is an hour drive each way, and I’m not sure how many sales we would have had.

 

 

 

Beth Spaugh

Rehoboth Homestead, Peru NY

http://rhomestead.com      http://www.facebook.com/rhomestead

 

"How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." - Wendell Berry

"Without power over our food, any notion of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe

 

 

 


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