[AT] Sad!

[Mike]

Maybe what they tried, but selling at a loss can never be overcome with 
volume.

On 11/5/2013 7:00 PM, Chuck Saunders wrote:
> 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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