What I don't get is, right now, I can get American strawberries, on sale, for less than half of what they're charging for locally grown strawberries.
I don't save anything on buying local; the stuff they truck for two days costs the exact same as the stuff from 30 minutes north of town.
So where are all these "regulations" and "fuel costs" when it comes to imports? Are they all covered by US farmer subsidies that we, as a NAFTA signatory, aren't allowed to put tariffs on? Or are our local produce boards gouging us?
Probably a little of column A, little of column B. For local produce, you're also paying for an extended shelf life. A lot of imported fresh food lasts days or weeks, but spends all that time in travel, so what you take home from the store starts going bad immediately.
I wouldn't be surprised if grocery stores were forced to price things to sell, to avoid having entire shipments go bad.
What Seak_King said plus scale of production. Local farms don't have the luxury of shipping as much produce as the importers, so the price per unit is going to be higher.
What I don't get is, right now, I can get American strawberries, on sale, for less than half of what they're charging for locally grown strawberries.
I don't save anything on buying local; the stuff they truck for two days costs the exact same as the stuff from 30 minutes north of town.
So where are all these "regulations" and "fuel costs" when it comes to imports? Are they all covered by US farmer subsidies that we, as a NAFTA signatory, aren't allowed to put tariffs on? Or are our local produce boards gouging us?
Probably a little of column A, little of column B. For local produce, you're also paying for an extended shelf life. A lot of imported fresh food lasts days or weeks, but spends all that time in travel, so what you take home from the store starts going bad immediately.
I wouldn't be surprised if grocery stores were forced to price things to sell, to avoid having entire shipments go bad.
What Seak_King said plus scale of production. Local farms don't have the luxury of shipping as much produce as the importers, so the price per unit is going to be higher.