[AT] Sad!

[Chuck Saunders]

selling at a loss and trying to make it up on volume


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Mike <meulenms at gmx.com> wrote:

> How the heck do you have debt on a farm that's been in the family since
> 1632? Mike M
>
> On 11/5/2013 6:17 PM, David Rotigel wrote:
> > See:
> http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/11/05/after-380-plus-years-new-hampshire-family-sells-farm/
> >
> > Three years after it was put up for sale, an 11-generation family farm
> in New Hampshire has been sold for a fraction of the price that was first
> listed.
> >
> > Members of the Tuttle family owned the 135-acre farm in Dover since
> 1632, one of America's oldest continuously operated family farms. They put
> the fruit-and-vegetable farm up for sale in the summer of 2010 as they
> dealt with competition from supermarkets, pick-it-yourself farms and debt.
> >
> > The original price was $3.35 million. Foster's Daily Democratreports it
> sold last month for a little over $1 million to Matt Kozazcki, who owns a
> farm in Newbury, Mass.
> >
> > "It's huge," Kozazcki told the paper. "It's a lot of heritage. We're
> trying to make it as much of a farm as possible. You can't forget the
> Tuttles. I can appreciate the work they did," Kozazcki told the paper.
> >
> > Kozazcki calls the business Tendercrop Farm and plans to sell meat and
> produce starting in December.
> >
> > Kozazcki said he plans to install a memorial plaque honoring the Tuttles
> near the farm store entrance.
> >
> > The New York Times columnist Verlyn Klinkenborg wrote a piece in 2010
> when the farm went out of business. She points out that the farm was
> founded when there were, maybe, 10,000 colonists in America.
> >
> > "It is too simple to say, as the Tuttles have, that the recession killed
> a farm that had survived for nearly 400 years. What killed it was the
> economic structure of food production. Each year it has become harder for
> family farms to compete with industrial scale agriculture — heavily
> subsidized by the government — underselling them at every turn,"
> Klinkenborg wrote. "In a system committed to the health of farms and their
> integration with local communities, the result would have been different.
> In 1632, and for many years after, the Tuttle farm was a necessity. In
> 2010, it is suddenly superfluous, or so we like to pretend."
> >
> > The Associated Press contributed to this report
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