A Shot of AG
Why the Orchard Is Investing Beyond Fresh Fruit
Clip: Season 6 Episode 39 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
Austin Flamm explains why value-added products are becoming essential to the family orchard.
Austin Flamm explains how the family operation has expanded beyond simply growing fruit. Its kitchen business has grown steadily for more than two decades, leading to larger investments in value-added products. With rising agricultural inputs and significant labor costs, Flamm says creating more value from what the farm grows has become increasingly important.
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A Shot of AG is a local public television program presented by WTVP
A Shot of AG
Why the Orchard Is Investing Beyond Fresh Fruit
Clip: Season 6 Episode 39 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
Austin Flamm explains how the family operation has expanded beyond simply growing fruit. Its kitchen business has grown steadily for more than two decades, leading to larger investments in value-added products. With rising agricultural inputs and significant labor costs, Flamm says creating more value from what the farm grows has become increasingly important.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- So the family raising the crops is one thing, but moving into more of the kitchen side, how unnerving was that to make that kind of investment?
- You know, we've been doing the kitchen side for about 25, 26 years now, since about the year 2000.
And it's grown exponentially in that time.
We keep seeing it trending upward.
So it was a big investment to move into a lot of the bigger scale stuff that we're doing now, but it was a confident decision.
We know it's going to work; it's just a matter of time seeing it come to life.
But the name of our game right now is value added.
'Cause as our inputs in agriculture go up, and in my world, everything we do is done by hand, so one input that row crop farmer doesn't have that we do on the scale that we do is our labor input.
We're employing 120 people.
- Cool.
- And that's a big payroll every week.
- Yeah.
- So...
The Hard Work Behind Fresh Fruit
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