Some of the price drop may be due to desperation in Argentina, which has experienced inflation that is simply out of control.

Their fall is our spring, so their strategy would be to sell everything they have at just about any price to get hard currency (Euros or dollars), which would hold value where the Argentine peso is not holding value.

Surface shipping is still so cheap as to be nearly free, so packers are going to buy at the lowest price they can find, and offer no more than that price to everyone.

Which was the beekeeper who wrote about selling to a grocer who looked up the "Chicago" price for honey, and then subtracted the cost of shipping (by rail) to Chicago from his "take it or leave it" offer?  I forget which book.  Maybe C. C. Miller.

I counsel novice beekeepers to test their pricing thusly.  First, tell the retailer your wholesale price for your honey in case lots.  Observe his reaction, then, punch him as hard as you can, and again observe his reaction.

If the reaction of surprise and pain from the punch is greater than the reaction from hearing your price, then you are underpricing your honey.




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