Here the relationship between grower packer and broker are quite incestuous. Most of our vegetables are field packed, so packinghouse aren't really packinghouses except for green beans and the bean people tend to own their own packing lines. And then the growers tend to own the packing house. And it's all crazily organized in a menagerie of partnerships and shell companies. They keep the accountants busy and shuffle money around so quick that it keeps the tax man guessing.
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Originally Posted by harveyc
To provide an incentive to try to get the highest price (which benefits the growers as well as them), they charge a flat price for packing plus the 10% on the sales. That's the case for pears, cherries, stone fruit, etc.
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