2023 Cost of Production for Fresh Market Raspberries Now Available

Hope you are all having a great holiday week.  I've been spending time in and out of work, doing some walking in the woods and thinking through the game plan for 2024.

Meanwhile, together with my colleagues Farm Advisor Emeritus Laura Tourte and Jeremy Murdock and Brittany Goodrich of the UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics department, we've completed the update of our cost of production study for fresh market primocane raspberries grown on the Central Coast.  Costs, in particular those for labor, have gone way way up so it was good to revise the study. As with our other cost of production studies, this raspberry study includes a summary of the cultural system, breaks down the costs and expected returns, with tables at the end for expected returns under a range of yield scenarios.

We very much appreciate all the input we got on this study from local growers and industry workers, who generously gave a lot of their time in providing input to make this study a good one.  Couldn't have done it without you!!

The file is attached below.

Look forward to seeing you all in 2024. 

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