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D-farm-gate-price Dictionary

Farm-gate price

The price the farm actually earns after transport and selling costs

All termsIntroduced in Module 5Open the Toolkit
An open dictionary on a farm office desk
Plain meaning
The price the farm actually earns after transport and selling costs
How to use it
Always compare buyers on farm-gate price, not quoted price. A distant buyer offering more can pay less once transport and selling costs are taken off.
South African benchmark
Concept term; South African budgets compare farm-gate prices across channels.
Country notes
Applies the same way in all five markets.
Go and read
C5
Calculate it
T-C-05 Delivered Cost Calculator
Library sources
LIB-A016, LIB-A025
See also
Commission, Value density, Export parity price
Market price broken into selling costs and the farm-gate priceFarm-gate pricePrice the buyer pays at marketTransportCommissionPackagingFarm-gate priceWhat the farm actually keeps after the costs of selling.
Farm-gate price, shown as a diagram.

Introduced in C5 Logistics and Cold Chain.