Working capital before the season
Cash before seed, feed, or processing deposits.
Harvest ProvisionsPrepaid food shares for corridor producers
For producers and organizers
Get paid before the season for food delivered later.
Move the money to the start of the season without changing how the producer farms.
Known demand before you plant
Sold shares give the producer a committed number.
No box-packing, no route
Deliver one lot to an agreed point in an agreed window.
What you commit
- A named lot — one steer, one field, one kitchen run.
- A delivery window.
- A price.
What you don't
- No co-op membership.
- No exclusive agreement.
- No loss of market, wholesale, restaurant, or farm-stand sales.
The math, worked through
One steer, four full shares
Plausible Willamette Valley figures, used only to show the method.
Example figures. This is not an offer, quote, or real producer's numbers. Actual costs and margin set the share price.
What's in the lot
- The lot
- One grass-finished steer
- Hanging weight
- 660 lb
- Take-home boxed beef
- 440 lb
1,150 lb live weight
About 57% of live weight
After cutting, trim, and bone-out
What it costs
- Raising the animal
- $1,950
- Kill, cut, and wrap
- $1,130
- Freezing and cold storage
- $200
- Producer cost
- $3,280
- Producer margin (18%)
- $590
- Lot price
- $3,870
Pasture, hay, minerals, vet, 22 months
Licensed processor, vacuum-sealed
Held from delivery through winter
What a member pays
- Full share
- $968
- Half share
- $484
- Quarter share
- $242
- Member cost per pound
- $8.80
110 lb — a quarter of the lot
55 lb
27.5 lb
Locked the day the share is bought
Four full shares total $3,872 against the example $3,870 lot price. The example producer receives that money before the processing deposit is due.
Questions
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