the increase price of produce=why???

[luckyleftyme2]

For those of you who think that grocery prices are increasing faster (are we being goughed)than the cost of rausing them you need to read this.

-- The Birmingham News

Jesse Durr leaned back in the tomato fields of Chandler Mountain Wednesday and raised his arms to the heavens.

"When I get another job I ain't gonna have a problem with nobody," he swore -- or maybe prayed. "After these tomato fields, any job is a good job."

After those fields, any job is a great job.

Forget, today, all you feel about Alabama's controversial immigration law. This is not about that. Not about the rightness or wrongness of it.
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Durr, through the Grow Alabama program that puts people to work on farms, began picking tomatoes last week. His first day, earning a dollar for every 25-pound box he filled, he made $23. He kept coming back.
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more: http://blog.al.com/archiblog/2011/10/another_unintended...



4 cents a pound? Wow, that really jacks up the price for consumers.


I have noticed the price of tomatoes have gone from (beefsteaks) 99 cents to $2.99 a pound
when the cost of labor has pretty much stood still. and transpotation costs are an excuse. how much do you think it costs to ship 100,000 pounds of tomatoes from alabama to maine in a trailer truck? I'll bet it's less than $5,ooo or a nickel a pound! where is the cost? i'll bet the farmer is lucky to get a $1.00 a pound the rest is in the pipe line of greed!