tahir
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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 £xxxx per tonne, but he has to sell them at £xxx per tonne because the jam side can buy in frozen pretrimmed Chinese strawbs for £xxx 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
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If it's two businesses why not sell them elsewhere and make a profit?
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gil
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Re: Sustainability? | tahir wrote: | | his cost of production for jam strawbs is £xxxx per tonne, but he has to sell them at £xxx per tonne because the jam side can buy in frozen pretrimmed Chinese strawbs for £xxx per tonne.... |
That's very kind of the jam business - I suppose they could have screwed him down to £xxx/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.
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tahir
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| 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.
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Cho-ku-ri
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Another sad example of Britain being out priced. The Chinese fruit is almost being picked by slaves. 
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MarkS
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Well if they only almost pick it, there wont be any for sale.
boom boom!!
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tahir
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hamster
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Hehehe.
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