Subscribe to RSS FeedCan Peach Farmers Make a Living?
The future of food depends on farmers making a living! 20 LBS peaches for $16 in the stores this week. Wow that is great for me BUT if you were that farmer would you grow peaches again next year or would it be more cost effective to cut the trees down? (that is what happened with many cherry trees last year!) If peaches are retailing for 80 cents a LB then how much is the farmer getting? 50 cents? Considering just the cost to pay a picker, would you bother growing? Its a function of our food system so what can we as consumers do? Pay a real price now for the promise of a future BC crop!
