The Red Cabin Farm at Denison
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We are at your service for Handmade Bread and Pastured Pork. The bread is crusty and hearty. The pork comes from our MangalitsaX forested pigs.
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1600 Arthur Road
Denison, TX
75021
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Competing With The Grocery Store
As a farmer, it’s difficult to ignore the grocery store and all that it contains. Besides being conveniently open 24/7 or close to it, their prices are low. They’re low to a farmer anyway, maybe not to a shopper.
At our local Fiesta or Asian grocery in the Dallas area there are many cuts of pork selling for around $2 lb. I’m not sure what ‘regular’ stores like Kroger or Tom Thumb charge, it’s probably more but not substantially more. If one goes to a farmers market and shops for pork, the prices are triple or so.
Why would anyone pay triple the price for the same exact thing? Aren't farmers price gouging or something? I used to think so. Then I started raising pigs and the enlightenment came: Big Agriculture is amazingly efficient. When you see an 18 wheeler with only chicken eggs rolling down the road toward your grocery store loading dock, you are witnessing efficiency at its finest.
Back in the day when small farms across the country raised or grew most of the food for the country, systems were local. A single county in a state like Georgia might have hundreds of small scale dairies, piggeries, etc. Adjacent to the farms was an industry of welders, mechanics, parts houses, etc. to support the farms. The podccast link about 10 minutes in describes this. https://sustainabledish.com/podcasts/sustainable-dish-episode-82-feeding-the-world-with-regenerative-agriculture-with-dr-allen-williams/
