I have a proposal opened for discussion.
Many Bakers looking for 7* Wheat Flour to bake the 7* Sourdough Bread causing the supply of 7* Wheat Flour is not constant, even in July. I will have my Bakery next turn, and thinking about the consistency of 7* Wheat Flour.
Since there are some CoOp members, such as curlymatt, Raje etc, have Windmill but don't have the Bakery at this moment, why not they place their 7* Wheat Flour on the Exchange Board occasionally/every turn? Whoever who need the wheat flour can buy from them on the exchange board with x% higher than standard price.
For myself, I will willing to pay around $4.50 for each 7* Wheat Flour, which you can only sell for $4.12. By this way, the seller (who don't have Bakery to process the flour) can earn $0.38 extra, and I can save $0.38 (buying price 4.88-4.50) for each 7* Wheat Flour. I will pay the Wheat Flour with Bread.
I hope my proposal make sense to you.
Good suggestion but I think we should pay in bread the equivalent of $4.88 which is what we normally pay for 7* wheat flour on the market. The $0.76 extra profit for the ones who mill can help them expand their farms faster.
ReplyDeleteYes I agree. If any miller can put on Exchange, I will buy as well for my baker.
ReplyDeleteagree.
ReplyDeleteI agree, but I just got the bakery so I'll be interested in that wheat flour so I can afford an organic workshop (I think that's the best next step to build better pesticides and fungicides). I noticed that there are two slots in the cooperative...could we recruit someone to help with this?
ReplyDeleteI have been making balanced feed, as it is currently more profitable than milling wheat flour, but I am willing to help out the coop. In my case I need to buy wheat to mill it. So I would request the market bonus on wheat be computed in too. Will start milling flour and putting it in the exchange board from the next turn. If I am the only one milling though, those needing the flour might have to take turns getting it from me.
ReplyDeleteRaje, you can state your expected sale price when you place 7* wheat flour on the exchange board.
ReplyDeleteEven though there is wheat flour available in the market today. I have decided to mill some today and see how things go. I will absorb half the market bonus and pass on half to the buyer. So will be charging $5.18 for the flour.
ReplyDeleteThat's more than the going market price.
ReplyDeleteYou normally sell wheat flour to the market for $4.12 whereas we buy it from the market for $4.88.
yes I agree but I am also buying wheat at a higher price. I guess It might not work out best when there is a market bonus on the wheat. It does not give me the same amount of profit that way. Right now I am paying $0.61 extra for the wheat. So I will not be getting the bonus mentioned.
ReplyDeleteAnyways I will only put the wheat flour when someone puts in a request for it from now on at the going market price.
Just another note to clarify that I really was not looking at charging extra, but only trying to help while not loosing out too much myself in the bargain.
ReplyDeleteIf there was no 7* wheat flour available on the market and you needed it, at today's price of 25% market bonus everyone would have to pay $3.05 per unit. which is $0.61 cents more.
By pricing the wheat flour at $5.18 I would be absorbing 50% of the price. With no 7* wheat flour available the price I charge would still be profitable to the bakers.
Also if I were making balanced feed today I would be making $2.85 per unit in profits.
where as milling and selling wheat flour at
1. $4.12 would be $1.38 profit
2. $4.88 would be $1.83 profit
3. $5.18 would be $2.13 profit
All prices are taking into consideration the market bonus in place as of today.
Oh, I see. I did not notice there was a price bonus on wheat because I don't normally buy it. Yeah, I suppose it's not worth it if wheat is too expensive. Well, right now there's already 7* wheat flour available on the market so you might be better off making/selling balanced feed.
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