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Vegetables bought from contract farms (most of them) are bought by weight. This means the farmers have an incentive to over water right before harvest weigh in
by abakker 5y ago
Vegetables bought from contract farms (most of them) are bought by weight. This means the farmers have an incentive to over water right before harvest weigh in heavy. Even for stupid stuff like ketchup where more energy is then spent to dehydrate the water right back out.
- fy20 5y agoIs there an alternative? By volume would lead to the same as well, for certain crops that may lead to waiting until crops are over ripe - less tasty - so they are bigger.
- abakker 5y agoIt seems like the only better alternative might be a fixed price based on count/average yield. It’s not perfect, but it seems possible that you could pay a farmer more (net of water costs) and the supplier could save money (net energy and transport costs). It wouldn’t work with all foods, but the volume of tomatoes alone could be meaningful.