awiediger@Hart.k12.ky.us wrote:
> > ----------
> > From: Andy Lee & Pat Foreman[SMTP:goodearth@rockbridge.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 4:53 PM
> > To: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu
> > Subject: Free range eggs
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > We need a new paradigm if we are to design and build farms that our
> > children
> > will want to own.
> >
> Totally agreed.
>
> > A $1 per dozen profit IS realistic, and what's more, it is NECESSARY, if
> > we
> > are to keep our farms profitable, for this generation and the next.
> Disagree here - it may be possible some places, but not here in
> South
> Central Kentucky. We just raised our process to $1.25/dozen at the
> farmers' market and met a lot of resistance. We may raise to $1.50 next
> year - but we'll lose customers. At $2.00/dozen or higher, we'd come
> home with most of our eggs.
>
> > Jim, you
> > might be correct in saying that performance will suffer. Perhaps we can't
> > produce as many eggs per hen as the commercial people can. But, why would
> > we
> > want to? The commercial paradigm burns out the hens, burns out the farmer,
> > and gives the consumer a pale, soft and watery egg that has no flavor and
> > probably very little nutritional value.
> >
> I agree, the product is far superior. We won't buy eggs any more. If
> our
> hens stop laying in the middle of the winter, we do without until
> February
> light levels start them again. But when the grocery stores run specials
> of 39 cents a dozen, it's a hard sell for a lot of consumers.
>
> > Consumers will pay $2 per dozen, and more.
> > Andy Lee
> >
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