Went into grocery store today for corn meal

[seedcorn]

I know corn is around $6.50/56 #'s. I calculated the price to be over $27/56 #'s. I bought it (had to have cornbread to go w/bean soup) but I about died. Don't tell me because corn goes up it has any effect on food prices.......Corn could go to $10/bushel and not affect corn meal price at all.

 

[wifezilla]

I have been trying to find a bag of organic frozen corn to use a little in some low carb, wheat-free jalapeno corn cakes. Can't find any in the "normal" stores so now I will be forced to go to the hippy infested health food store and ask the pale, undernourished thing in the hemp tie-dyed t-shirt for some and pay way too much for it. I doubt it will be less than $6 for 12 oz. I feel your pain.

 

[thistlebloom]

Hey wifezi, Costco has frozen organic corn for an awesome price which I don't know at the moment. Do you guys have Costco?

 

[silkiechicken]

I think as soon as you label it human food it is 2x the cost. Then put it in a grocery store for humans and it is 2x the 2x cost for a 4x the cost. Package it in small bags and you'll have a 5x the cost. Put it in a speciality store, and it will be 10x the cost. Such as 4.99 for a 20 ounce bag of ground corn.

 

[seedcorn]

I think as soon as you label it human food it is 2x the cost. Then put it in a grocery store for humans and it is 2x the 2x cost for a 4x the cost. Package it in small bags and you'll have a 5x the cost. Put it in a speciality store, and it will be 10x the cost. Such as 4.99 for a 20 ounce bag of ground corn.

Before I pay that, I will grind my own...almost did at $2.4/5#'s. I support making a profit but dang making over $20 on a $6 item.......

 

[silkiechicken]

I bet marketing and overhead is 95% of that price... like cheap electronics from china.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I assume you raise it, harvest it, store and dry it, then transport it to the elevator. I don't know if you shell it or not.

From the elevator it is transported, stored, processed, packaged, transported again, warehoused, and stocked on the shelf. Various overhead and pay somebody to manage the cash register. I would not be surprised if there were a few taxes paid along the way. For a relatively small package, a mark-up of 4 times your selling price is probably not that bad. There area lot of people supporting their families along the way.

If you can get it ground to the consistency you want for cornbread for less, absolutely a good way to go. Good luck finding a mill.

 

[ninnymary]

Wifezilla..Do you have a Trader Joe's near you? They have a wonderful roasted organic frozen corn. Can't remember the price, but it seems cheap to me. Less than $2 for a good size bag.

Mary

 

[wifezilla]

The nearest TJ is about 10 hours away. There have been times I was tempted to make a stock up run I wonder how much Sumatran coffee, organic corn and 3 Buck Chuck I can get in a VW Golf hatchback...

As for Costco, it is about 1 1/2 hours round trip. I have a Sam's membership so I will see what they have before resorting to the hippy infested health food store.

 

[Ariel301]

I think as soon as you label it human food it is 2x the cost. Then put it in a grocery store for humans and it is 2x the 2x cost for a 4x the cost. Package it in small bags and you'll have a 5x the cost. Put it in a speciality store, and it will be 10x the cost. Such as 4.99 for a 20 ounce bag of ground corn.

Indeed. Corn that is sold for human consumption is higher in price than feed corn all the time. It isn't usually the same corn, the stuff sold for animal feed is not considered safe for human consumption...I've bought bags of feed corn that have a warning label saying not safe for people to eat because it can make them sick. The GMO corn that is deemed unfit for human consumption is still grown for animal feed. Makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

The company I buy my organic livestock mineral supplement for also packages the same mineral salt for human consumption. I pay $10 for a 50 pound bag packaged for animals...the 8 ounce container packaged for humans of the SAME product is the same price...so we buy the 50 pound bag and share it with the goats.