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If selling to a grocery store, what margin % do you sell under their retail? What is acceptable?
Cup of coffee is $3:50? GTFO! How about $1-$2. Wondering if all your yield and income claims are also inflated?
Seemed strange hearing what coffee sells for now. I grew up in a world that gave you coffee for free.
Hi Curtis, just wondering do you charge a delivery fee? Love your videos! Thanks for all you share.
No info there
Because of the ad that Google chose for your video, I disliked your video (sorry) even though I didn't watch your video. Unfortunately, it was a topic of interest but I'm so sick of Google attempting to press their agenda I guess I'll have to stop watching YouTube. Write more BOOKS!
Hi Love your videos. I hope you enjoyed your stay in New Zealand… A Kiwi living here in Australia.
Here in Australia, the government owned national radio network has regular ( I think daily, but don't quote me ) market reports where they give you all of the going wholesale prices for fruit and vegetables in or near to your capital city. There are also rural market reports for larger country towns and cities as well as meat and livestock market reports. I don't know how it works in other countries, but I think that tuning in for the Market Report on ABC radio will be more of a help than a hindrance for those wanna-be Aussie urban farmers who aren't too sure what to charge. However, there maybe a marked difference between the Market Report wholesale prices and what is being charged retail by the large supermarket chains.
The supermarket retail price might be lower than the market wholesale price. This may be because the supermarket chains have their own buying and marketing wings that handles the purchasing, handling, storage, processing, packaging and delivery of fruit and vegetables. They also regularly approach small crop farmers and negotiate a price for their vegetables before they even plant them. So, if for instance, a tomato grower is offered a set price for his next tomato crop, he, the seller is taking a gamble that his crop will earn him more money than it would if he had gone through an agent at the markets. The gamble is this: If there is a big season on tomatoes and the market is flooded with them and the price drops, the supermarket farmer is sitting pretty. His income is guaranteed AND above the going rate. However, if it's a bad season for all of the tomato growers in the region and the cost of tomatoes soars, he's missed out big time. He's still going to get paid, but at no where near the going rate that every other producer is getting.
The thing is, win, lose or draw, the supermarket chain and to a slightly lesser extent, the farmer are both on a winner usually. And who's the loser? Well, the supermarket customer of course. Because of too early harvesting and too long in cold storage, chain store tomatoes in Australia don't even taste like tomatoes. In fact they have absolutely no flavor at all. So, if you want to know what a real tomato tastes like, grow your own or go to a farmers market.
There can be no better confirmation of the quality, or lack thereof, of supermarket produce than my daughter, who, while visiting , went grocery shopping with me. As we stood at opposite ends of the fruit and vegie sections, she made her feelings known by announcing in a very loud voice, "Dad, this stuff is shit!"
I like using organicpricetracter.ca . they sometimes don't have the price for a certain veggie. but you can select your region and veggie. Its thru COG Canadian organic growers
I just started my microgreen business, and I priced a flat of micros very low for my "guinea pig" customer. I wanted to test to see how fast they used them, and if they were interested in buying more. The initial low price to my first customer was viewed as an introductory offer. Moving forward, if I can keep him as a recurring buyer, I will feel confident raising the cost for all the future customers. I based my pricing on getting my foot in the door as their supplier.
I just came across your videos and I'm hooked!! I absolutely can't get enough, and I love how real and down to earth you Are!
Thank you for sharing all the wonderful ideas. I'm so excited to see more!
Thank you Leah
How do I sell my various salad greens for a profit, when our local WalMart is selling their Organic Spring Mix for $3.66 per pound? I suspect more than one of our Farmer's Market vendors is sourcing at least some of their green there.
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Input production costs, transportation costs, storage costs, and other input costs plus taxes and a "REASONABLE mark up equals your price.
Knew you were in nz!
Awesome video! As someone who aspires to start a farm like yours this is really helpful and realistic! Thanks 🙂
How about international wholesale prices like this website; http://www.producepriceindex.com/
3-4$(USD) Dollars for a cup of coffee, what are you going to a coffee shop or what?
Did you ever dream that you would blow up like u have? U have become my gooroo. (No spell check)
Hi Curtis, how are you man, quick question if I made please, what are the top 10 (more or less) microgreen salad? the reason I ask this to be honest is because I never heard the word microgreen before, things changes so quickly now a days that it is hard to keep informed with need products so fast, thank very much Curtis.
In my country, people don't know microgreen and not available. I want to start microgeen and I am trying to grow now. Will people accept it? If they, then how can I set my price? Please help.
looks like north island NZ
great info again Curtis, appreciate all the material you post.
thank you for sharing this video…very inforamtive!
You are my best friend. You just don't know it lol. Love your work.
So, you're saying that growing coffee beans are a lucrative business move, because $3.50 for a cup of coffee is insane haha
makes sense….
I looked up on google on how much money for a 50 pound bag of potatoes and it was about $7.00 but how much does grocery stores buy a 50 pound bag of potatoes for?