Ding
We have a winner
How it's done in the USYou pay some Mexican $16-18 a bin to pick them, $8+ an hour to thin them $8+ an hour to prop the trees, property tax, water, equipment and upkeep of same, general repairs, fuel for the tractors, fuel and upkeep on the windmachines, insecticides, herbicides, bees (yes BEES), insurance (property, liability & hail), packing costs.....................................................................................................................
Then after all that, your packing shed sends your culls to the processing plant (ie Tree Top, Seneca.....), they take their cut.
Then the wholesaler/distributor gets theirs.
Cant leave out the supermarket.
Orchardist gets $55 a ton.
on a good year. $7-20 a packed box depending on type, size and grade
How it's done in ChinaForce Chinese pheasant to do all the labor,
communist government flips the bill on all the rest.
Send to processing plant ran by
communist government , and poison
Lowball the price and sell to US wholesaler/distributor.
Wholesaler/distributor sells to supermarket both getting big cuts.
BTW, no law prevents them from using insecticides banned in the US.