Cost of production question answered

Rick Bella of America's Second Harvest wrote recently with a request for information about fresh produce costs as it moves through the supply chain. Rick said he wanted to show food banks how the program seeks to to capture produce at the best time in the supply chain for not only costs but for quality as well.

I asked Gary Lucier of the USDA Economic Research Service if he might have any links to cost of production sources for fresh produce and he was gracious to respond fairly quickly.

Gary provided the following "cost of production" sites that also might be of interest to other Fresh Talk readers.

http://www.agbuscenter.ifas.ufl.edu/cost/COP04-05/tableofcontents.htm

http://coststudies.ucdavis.edu/current.php

http://www.ag-econ.ncsu.edu/AgBudgets/vegetable.htm

http://cherokee.agecon.clemson.edu/f&v_bud.htm

http://cdp.wisc.edu/Freshmarket.htm

One of great things about the way business is done today is the use of the Web, email, blogs and discussion groups to get questions answered. Thanks again to Gary for his quick response.