Pork prices in your area.....

Eldon (WA) · Sep 16, 2015

I have seen "non-gmo fed" pork offered for $3.00 a lb hanging weight (plus kill, cut and wrap) out here...seems way out of line with regular pork prices. It seems people out here just randomly set their own prices for beef and pork without regard to national prices. Organic chicken, $5 a lb! Anyone else see these prices in your area, or are we in our own little non-gmo market out here??

mustard · Sep 16, 2015

Friends of mine were selling there chickens for $25 dollars a bird this year. They were GMO free organic chickens. Having help with the butchering they gave me 2 8lbs birds. Majority of their chickens were 8-10lbs.

gene bender · Sep 17, 2015

Every area seems to have the health food nuts and they will pay good money so collect their money and enjoy.

larry@stinescorner · Sep 17, 2015

cant say,,but I just bought center cut pork chops at the shoprite supermarket this week.....1.77 a pound,,,they are on sale

Jshum40 · Sep 17, 2015

Going to town this morning to get some loins at 1.49 a pound sliced free. Cheaper than bologna an a lot better on the grill

Donald Lehman · Sep 17, 2015

All you have to do is tag something with the "organic", "non-gmo", "free range" label and there will be someone who will pay whatever price you ask. Especially in the coastal states. (chuckle)

NW Ohio Tim · Sep 17, 2015

We sell freezer pigs. We make it clear that we use GMO corn and antibiotics when needed. Pigs come out of a regular commercial herd.

I get my pigs from a lifelong friend. I pay him a premium for messing with small numbers (10 to 12 at a time).

We price our pork by taking our actual cost of the pig, feed & bedding, then tack on a set profit for us. The pigs we sold last month brought $1.20/lb hanging weight.

We take care of everything, feeding, scheduling & delivery to processor. All the customer has to do is pay us and and pay the processor when they pick up the packaged frozen meat.

We allow customers to visit the pigs in the barn if they want, as they grow. We also send weekly texts/pictures to keep them up to date on the growing porkers.

Almost all of our customers have been back for more halves/wholes and many have reccomended us to others. Most of our pigs are already sold before we even put them in the barn.

We never bad mouth production farms, in fact, I often educate people how their pork is much the same as ours. But they like to meet the people raising their food I guess.

I won't complain, it's getting to be a nice sideline business.

Tim

formenwhogrow · Sep 17, 2015

Niche market prices are set by what people will pay. If one can get people to give you $xx/lb. hanging weight
despite your price being nearly double that of what is considered market price, then more power to that individual. You say
these meats are "offered" at those prices, do you know for sure if they are actually getting those prices or are you just
going off of observation?

JMS/.MN · Sep 17, 2015

I"ve noticed ads on craigslist where you can "reserve" a piglet by paying half the mature market value ahead of time. So people are dumb enough to pay the grower"s feed cost up front. Seller posts pix and says they"ll be ready in about 7 months! Must be lousy feed conversion....I like it when they advertise "free range" stock in the winter...especially chickens and beef...this is Minnesota, after all.

pete 23 · Sep 17, 2015

I always give a good friend of mine a lot of apples off my tree each fall. I told him he is getting organic apples this year. Plenty of worms have gone through them. Never sprayed last year either but they were great. Other years I sprayed but not knowing much about timing and how to spray them it didn't make a lot of difference. Good years, very few wormy apples, this year, most of them wormy. When I was a kid, everything was organic. My dad never had a sprayer, no commercial fertilizer, and today, people think that is something special.

L.Fure · Sep 17, 2015

(quoted from post at 17:15:35 09/17/15) We sell freezer pigs. We make it clear that we use GMO corn and antibiotics when needed. Pigs come out of a regular commercial herd.

I get my pigs from a lifelong friend. I pay him a premium for messing with small numbers (10 to 12 at a time).

We price our pork by taking our actual cost of the pig, feed & bedding, then tack on a set profit for us. The pigs we sold last month brought $1.20/lb hanging weight.

We take care of everything, feeding, scheduling & delivery to processor. All the customer has to do is pay us and and pay the processor when they pick up the packaged frozen meat.

We allow customers to visit the pigs in the barn if they want, as they grow. We also send weekly texts/pictures to keep them up to date on the growing porkers.

Almost all of our customers have been back for more halves/wholes and many have reccomended us to others. Most of our pigs are already sold before we even put them in the barn.

We never bad mouth production farms, in fact, I often educate people how their pork is much the same as ours. But they like to meet the people raising their food I guess.

I won't complain, it's getting to be a nice sideline business.

Tim

I was doing the same thing here, until corn went up to $7.50/bu.. Once I got started word of mouth expanded my business. I was selling pigs to people I never met in person, and only spoke with on the phone a week before I delivered the pigs to the local butcher. Never had a complaint from anyone. I always bought the best pigs I could get, and fed them what ever the feed store prescribed. One year I bought extra pigs thinking I could get them all sold. When it came time to butcher I had 5 or 6 left over. I told the owner of the butcher shop that I had that many left. He didn't even hesitate when he told me he'd take them. The day I went in to pick up my processed meat I figured I'd be offered market value for the extra pigs. Instead, the butcher asked what I wanted for the pigs. I told him what I had sold the others for, and he didn't even blink an eye when he wrote out the check. He praised the quality of my pigs and said mine would end up in his retail counter. Made me pretty proud.

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