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joseph · July 27, 2015

Current (very early season) prices at my market are about:

$3 per pint of cherry/saladette tomatoes.
$1 per fruit for ~8 oz fruits.

The per fruit price will drop to 1/2 or 1/3 of that in the next few weeks as production ramps up. The price on cherry tomatoes will stay the same due to the labor required to pick them. Saladette tomatoes will end the season at $1 per pint.

One guy sells using a non-certified scale. He is begging for trouble. Everyone else sells by the basket, or by the fruit.

I always market cherry tomatoes in pint baskets. Later in the season when I have lots of varieties and sizes of tomatoes I'll sell mixed lots as 'Fill a bag for $3'. People generally put about 3 to 5 pounds of tomatoes into the bag.

Towards the end of the season, canning tomatoes sell for about $12 to $15 per half bushel around here.

I grow in an agricultural community where most members of the community are required by religious dogma to grow a garden. Hard to get high prices in that kind of an environment.

July 27, 2015	#2
joseph Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Cache Valley, N/E of The Great Salt Lake Posts: 1,244	Current (very early season) prices at my market are about: $3 per pint of cherry/saladette tomatoes. $1 per fruit for ~8 oz fruits. The per fruit price will drop to 1/2 or 1/3 of that in the next few weeks as production ramps up. The price on cherry tomatoes will stay the same due to the labor required to pick them. Saladette tomatoes will end the season at $1 per pint. One guy sells using a non-certified scale. He is begging for trouble. Everyone else sells by the basket, or by the fruit. I always market cherry tomatoes in pint baskets. Later in the season when I have lots of varieties and sizes of tomatoes I'll sell mixed lots as 'Fill a bag for $3'. People generally put about 3 to 5 pounds of tomatoes into the bag. Towards the end of the season, canning tomatoes sell for about $12 to $15 per half bushel around here. I grow in an agricultural community where most members of the community are required by religious dogma to grow a garden. Hard to get high prices in that kind of an environment. Last edited by joseph; July 28, 2015 at 03:26 PM.