Selling meat at farm gate

[sustainable24]

We split all our pigs between 6 customers, I'm not sure we would save much work if we switched to 4. With ever smaller households living in ever smaller houses, I'm not sure there's much mileage in trying to get folks to go back to bulk buying.The customer is always right, apparently.

1/6th of a pig is still bulk buying if I have 5 pigs I have 20 orders to fulfil if I sell as quarters, if I sell in 1/6ths that means I need to find 30 customers that's definitely more work, more packaging, more transport, liaising etc. Also in a climate of increasing food insecurity and rising prices having a chest freezer makes total sense, sales of them have picked up over the last couple years.

And the customer is definitely not always right, customer often just wants cheap and convenient over all else then moans when this wrecks everything because it isn't sustainable long term.

 

[Netherfield]

The skill of a good butcher is to sell what they want to get rid of, not what the customer thinks they want to buy.

 

[delilah]

If there's anyone following this who is a BFU member, please see the abattoir thread in the member section.