• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

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I’m well aware of the disconnect between farm & consumer prices. Every time I walk into a grocery & see pecans selling for &15/lb after we scraped through another year selling to the brokerages for $1.50llb Farmers have zero control over what they receive for crops. I currently have right at 25k lbs of nuts at a cleaning/brokerage facility with more on the way & won’t know what we’ll receive for them until the cleaning is through & the shellers & the brokers decide what prices they’ll allow.
Wow thats kind of absurd.

Now here is the thing.. In a true capitalistic system.. The farmers would know how to 'manipulate' the market in their favor.. e.g. make sure the prices are high during harvest time. Reality is that it often doesnt suit them to do such.

One way or another.. There will always be a loser and winner in this story.
 
Have you Pecan Farmers ever thought of organizing and controlling the market yourself.

Now days you have the internet and shipping companies galore.

Just create a website like www.nuttypecanprices.com

Then you sell them direct to consumer for $7.50 a pound 5Xing what you get now and the consumer gets your product for half price.

Give price breaks for larger quantities/orders.

Use Facebook/Instagram adds - mom's that cook live there.

Fuck the middleman.

Also go Buccee's and have all the different flavored pecans.

BTW -

* I want an 1% override on all sales for pulling your crew into the 21st Century.

BTW Part II

Starlink is available across the USA and works great for farms.

Get busy I need some mailbox money for my South American adventures!


Also that.

That is a thing thats happening over here a lot.
We are now just riding out of city and get veggies and such there.

Only good meat is a problem.

We do have some projects where we sell the cow before killing it. Once the whole cow is sold then it gets chopped up and divided. But besides that there isnt (yet) a good solution for (REAL!!) meat.
 
Also that.

That is a thing thats happening over here a lot.
We are now just riding out of city and get veggies and such there.

Only good meat is a problem.

We do have some projects where we sell the cow before killing it. Once the whole cow is sold then it gets chopped up and divided. But besides that there isnt (yet) a good solution for (REAL!!) meat.

Priced a cow yesterday. Wanted $3 per lb and the butcher bill was $1800

Looking at $7200 total.

That fucking cow can die and rot in the pasture before I pay that much.
 
Priced a cow yesterday. Wanted $3 per lb and the butcher bill was $1800

Looking at $7200 total.

That fucking cow can die and rot in the pasture before I pay that much.
Do you do realize that people will pay you hundreds of dollars to be engagement with the cow alive or dead?
 

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