Price Structure

While I was at Maurice's Slaughter house taking care of the pig order the Grandfather said to me "you aren't charging enough, you should be getting $6.00 per pound, or you should charge hanging weight".

Funny how things work out but we had just got our new price lists up and in fact we will be charging $6.00 per pound for a 1/4 pig. This price structure is for a number of reasons but Grampa put it best: by charging per pound as we were, a lot of the pig is discarded so we were loosing money on what we had put time, money and feed into, so we were actually charging just for what we delivered to the customer and loosing all the rest that was required so the customer could get their order.

With the new price we won't be throwing away money and the actual price per pound for the whole animal including the parts discarded is more in line with what others are doing.
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Our Turkeys are the same thing, look at what others charge and you will see that you can get a great deal here at Footsteps Farm and heck, if you buy from us it will help us get larger so we can serve more people. Our goal is to sell 200 Pastured Tamworth pigs per year, 800 Pastured broilers, and 100 Heritage Turkeys.

For 2006 before the season starts we need ten more chicken or turkey tractors at a cost of $135.00 for the parts for each tractor, plus 8 porta huts ( www.modreskefencing.com/portahuts.html) for our hogs at $235.00 each. We could really use three 4 1/2 ton bulk storage bins at about $18.00 each so as you can see we really need to charge a fair price for our products.


Cheers,
Craig