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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 4:01 pm Post subject: Sustainability?

I had a discussion with the farm manager at Tiptree jams yesterday, the farm is run as a separate business from the jam making, his cost of production for jam strawbs is ï¿½xxxx per tonne, but he has to sell them at ï¿½xxx per tonne because the jam side can buy in frozen pretrimmed Chinese strawbs for ï¿½xxx per tonne.

So he loses money on his sales.

Bonkers eh?

I know which strawbs'll be going into all the fruit yogs and jams in the supermarkets....

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Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: under some rain.

Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 4:03 pm Post subject:
If it's two businesses why not sell them elsewhere and make a profit?

gil
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 4:11 pm Post subject: Re: Sustainability?

tahir wrote:

his cost of production for jam strawbs is ï¿½xxxx per tonne, but he has to sell them at ï¿½xxx per tonne because the jam side can buy in frozen pretrimmed Chinese strawbs for ï¿½xxx per tonne....

That's very kind of the jam business - I suppose they could have screwed him down to ï¿½xxx/tonne

This does seem to be a problem with growing fruit and veg for processing. I haven't separated out the two sides of my business, but I suspect [no, I know] that the one subsidises the other.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 4:15 pm Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

If it's two businesses why not sell them elsewhere and make a profit?

They're developing that side of things, they had fresh fruit in Waitrose last year but it's a fundamental shift in what they do; fresh sales need to meet a completely different set of criteria. Also Tiptree consider that buying English fruit where possible is a key element of their persona, can't imagine there are any other jam makers that buy for more.

Green Man

Joined: 23 Jul 2006
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Location: Rural Scotland.

Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 4:42 pm Post subject:
Another sad example of Britain being out priced. The Chinese fruit is almost being picked by slaves.

MarkS

Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Posts: 2626

Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 5:48 pm Post subject:
Well if they only almost pick it, there wont be any for sale. boom boom!!

tahir

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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 5:51 pm Post subject:

hamster

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Location: Wokingham (Berks.), UK

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 07 11:55 am Post subject:
Hehehe.

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