Does anyone have an idea what terms the California Citrus Growers
contract
specifies with companies like Sunkist? Last I heard it was very
limiting for
the growers to sell their surplus fruit at ANY price. It may be
cheaper to bring
citrus products in from Australia rather than pay Sunkist and industry
prices
in the U S.
Wes
On Jul 31, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Ed Weldon wrote:
> What do you want to bet that someone, either the farmer or some
> middle man,
> is stuck with a contract negotiated when air freight was cheaper
> than today
> and is now shipping money with every orange......
> Ed
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rich Fox" <v4gr@rcn.com>
> To: "landspeed@autox.team.net" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:18 PM
> Subject: [Land-speed] fuel and such
>
>
>> Yesterday I went to the store and bought some oranges. We grow
>> plenty of
>> oranges in California. These looked good and taste good. I just
>> looked at
> the
>> little label on them and they came from Australia. That's a pretty
>> long
> haul
>> for an Orange. I guess they came in a refrigerated container. Still
>> must
> have
>> burned a fair amount of fuel to get here and still sell cheap. RF
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