Some post the video "Peaches" by the band Presidents of the United States of America.

A.bushel weighs 48 lbs..that's 96 a bushel

Some post the video "Peaches" by the band Presidents of the United States of America.

You can do well reselling mums, asters, gourds, squash and pumpkins from the auction in the Fall too. They sell dirt cheap at Mt. Hope at times.

Keith

You all do have pluck!! Nice little short-term gig.

Not much for fruit around here, too far north to grow peaches. There's a few apple orchard operations, sort of family fun affairs and pick or buy some apples as well. If I had an acreage, I'd have different kinds of fruit. Wife nixed anything here.

Supposedly, my paternal grandparents used to drive about 30-40 miles south from their farm in late July or early August and pick bunches of choke cherrys and wild plums growing in the Missouri River valley draws. I know they probably had gooseberries on their farm. Most old farmsteads around here have a few mulberry trees.

I think the size of farms in Appalachia tend to have people doing more side gigs, such as having some orchard action. I doubt many Appalachian farms are taking out million dollar (or more ) operating loans to do their multi-thousand acres of a couple of crops. Being less capital intensive allows people to be a bit more diverse in what they grow. Modern crop insurance has changed a lot of behavior. People get used to having that backstop and the whole system favors big commodity production.

Good job.

I hope my new peach trees produce like that someday.

I think you used to sell paw paw's too

I bought a 25 lb box of Florida peaches for $50.00 I think there were 58 peaches In that box. I made lots of jam . I never want to see another peach for a long time.

They are a big deal here the peach truck puts out a notice when they are coming and where they will be and people flock there every year. There is a place in Sioux Falls that specializes in fresh fruit shipments as their main business kind of like a broker.