29 August, 2011
We have two boxes of butchered Berkshire Pedigree Pork available this week.
One box contains a butchered half pig, costing £160 with a guaranteed minimum of 20kg of pork (£8 per kilogram). Typically, the weight is around 22.5kg (£7.11 per kilogram).
The other contains a butchered quarter pig, costing £80 with a guaranteed minimum weight of 10kg. The typical weight is around 11-12kg.
The pork is available at short notice because a couple of orders have fallen through.
Details of the Pedigree Pork scheme and the contents of one of our half-pig pork boxes can be found here.
Details of how we arrive at our pricing can be found here. Butchery costs have risen since then but we’re maintaining the prices at the same level for now.
We prefer customers to collect, so they can see the croft and the pigs. It may be possible to deliver at cost provided it’s a local sale, which is specified as being no more than 30 miles from the croft. We’re just outside Insch, in Aberdeenshire, north-east Scotland.
The pork will be available from either Thursday or Friday evening, depending on when the abattoir delivers it to us. We store it in a large freezer but prefer prompt collection
Please use the contact form if you’re interested in buying pork or would like more information.
Alas dear Stoney I am too far away to order or taste your pork. I will have to take wing and depart from Oz to do some serious tasting!
The half pig box has now sold. Still a quarter pig box remaining.
It appears the quarter pig box has also sold, pending receipt of a deposit.
Now that’s a good deal: well raised pedigree pork for only a 30% premium over the weekly special (likely a loss leader too) at my local grocery store. Unfortunately, I’m a few thousand kilometres away on the wrong side of the North Atlantic, and the pork has already sold. I must head out to my local farmer’s market on the weekend and see what’s available here.
We don’t charge a premium price. We charge cost plus a small margin to cover the losses incurred selling weaner pigs. Our costs are higher than industrial pig farms because we’re small and we use a relatively inefficient breed of pigs.
Premium prices are set artificially high to exploit buyer assumptions that expensive items are higher quality or enjoy a special cache. Supermarkets, for example, will use premium pricing on their “quality” pork lines, even if the production methods are largely the same as those used on their standard lines. It’s all about people being silly enough to pay more for a bit of marketing glitz.
So while we are more expensive than many supermarket lines that’s a reflection of our higher costs and not a result of a premium price marketing gimmick to exploit the gullible.
Is there a mailing list we can join as we are almost out of pork chops?