Re: [gardeners] potato prices
George Shirley (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:23:57 -0600
margaret lauterbach wrote:
> What are potato prices like in your supermarkets? Tell your supermarket
> managers that you're angry over their inflated prices. I'd bet my life
> they are. What has happened is that it cost potato farmers $5 per 100
> pounds to grow potatoes, and they're now being paid between $2.50 and $3
> per hundredweight. Obviously they can't "make it up" in bulk sales, and
> they can't afford to keep at this very long. One of our supermarkets sold
> baking potatoes last week for 10 cents a pound. That's $10 per
> hundredweight, so someone in between is making a very good profit. I don't
> mind fair profits, but the farmers ought to have fair profits too.
> Margaret L
Idaho baking potatoes are 79 cents per pound down here. Might be the added
transportation costs.
George