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Friday, November 20, 2009
Rodale - Organic Price Reporter
The Rodale Institute has just released an online organic price reporter. Whether you’re a grower or a buyer, you can visit the site, and check to see the cost of organic versus conventional in several different cities. It’s really more for the grower than the buyer - prices are in bulk (like I’m just not going to buy 40 pounds of onions at one time:) But still interesting.
I tried this out - first looking at one crop, one market, but quickly realized that the easiest way to do this is to look at one product, all markets. And I couldn’t get meat prices to come up in any markets. Keep in mind that Rodale set their organic prices based on information they got from distributors, handlers and grain elevators, and their conventional prices from a division of the United States Department of Agriculture.
Hopefully, they’ll get meat prices up there soon. And it would be really cool to see another column with farmer’s market prices.
