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To: twigs
This is the best year I can ever remember for excellent, sweet fruit. And it's the cheapest I ever remember it.

I paid $2 a pint for blueberries and $2.99 a pound for cherries this past weekend. I don't expect people will pay much more - maybe a little more but not much more. If American growers can't supply produce at those prices, I expect South American growers will.

9 posted on 07/10/2006 7:56:34 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: rhombus

There's an idea! Let their cheap labor fuel their economies. They can grow it there and send it to us.


13 posted on 07/10/2006 8:16:08 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
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To: rhombus
I paid $2 a pint for blueberries and $2.99 a pound for cherries this past weekend. I don't expect people will pay much more - maybe a little more but not much more. If American growers can't supply produce at those prices, I expect South American growers will.

Using cheap labor. US fruit cannot compete with imported fruit.

Fruit growers will go out of business without low cost labor.

19 posted on 07/10/2006 8:30:46 AM PDT by sinkspur (Today, we settled all family business.)
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