NARBA publishes berry prices

The North American Raspberry and Blackberry Association recently conducted a survey to determine prices growers were getting for their fruit. Below is a summary of the vast amount of data that was collected. The prices ranged quite a bit and the data is presented by state, type of operation/customer base. For the full article in the Bramble newsletter, you need to become a member of NARBA. http://www.raspberryblackberry.org/local.cfm?doc=webdocs/memberbenefits.htm

Average prices for each berry type per unit

	PYO	Already picked
	per pint	per quart	per pound	per gallon	per half-pint	per pint	per quart	per pound	per gallon
Red Raspberries	$3.00	$5.38	$4.07	--	$3.90	$4.78	$8.43	$5.37	--
Black Raspberries	$2.63	$5.00	$3.86	--	$4.48	$4.41	$7.42	$5.67	--
Blackberries	$2.71	$4.42	$3.54	$12.72	$3.27	$4.64	$6.51	$5.06	$20.11

From the field: black raspberry harvest

Black raspberry harvest 8 June 2013, Jackson Springs NC.

So, after a long wet couple of days, we had a large harvest of black raspberries in Christine's black raspberry trial (see earlier post http://teamrubus.blogspot.com/2013/05/black-raspberry-research-in-nc-and-or.html). Each of these little jewels weighs about 1 gram, and each of these are gallon sized bags. So if there are 3 kg in a gallon, that would mean they (Christine, and her crew of 2) picked 14 bags X 3000 g = 42,000 berries in one day? (UPDATED DATA ABOVE, 1 gallon bag weighed less than we thought)