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$1.50 -$2/pound for raw beans?

For the difference in prices at the store for roasted beans, I could use one of those 132# bags, and do my own roasting...

What did he say his phone number was?

The shipping would kill you. BUT --- since you're in the Dakotas, if you ever find yourself going to Chicago, then it is an official coffee port. There should be some green coffee brokers there, but I'm under the impression that not very much of the best specialty grades make it to the Great Lakes, in comparison to New York, San Francisco, or Seattle.

Try finding a small roaster not too far away from you, and see if they would agree to have an additional bag of something good, added into their load. Maybe split the difference between what shipping would cost you, and what the lower per pound rate the roaster should be getting (if they are buying say, a thousand lbs. of various, at a time)?

Here's an offering sheet out of an outfit with a warehouse in Oakland http://www.royalcoffee.com/offering.asp No, they don't list prices. It's not the way it's done.

We used to source *some* of our stuff from them...since their green prices were, if not better in most cases, always favorably comparable to others. But then again, for a bit better stuff, one has to pay more. Many times, more than "a bit" more.

Seattle is also a coffee port. New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, all are coffee ports.

Figure on losing 15-20% weight after roasting, too. those are not only bean dollars going up the stack, but shipping dollars, too.