sashurlow
Well-Known Member
This post is intended to be humorous BTW... I personally don't grow hops to save money, I'm a DIY type and like growing things.
This past weekend has been my harvest of my three varieties of hops. I did some math to see how much money I saved and it got me thinking...
The going rate for hops seems to be 2.29/oz or 6.99 for 8oz so 1.25/oz as an average figure. But time is money too and I make around 25/hr at my day job. So my packaging is not complete but my estimated numbers are going to be 35 oz of hops and two solid days of work to harvest and weigh/vacu-seal all my hops (20 hrs). Of course this is not including any other time spent, purely the harvest time. So that will put me at 43.75 dollar of hops for 500.00 dollars of labor. That means I lost 456.25 dollars by growing hops this year.
At 1.25/oz and 25/hr, I'm guessing most of us are loosing money.
This past weekend has been my harvest of my three varieties of hops. I did some math to see how much money I saved and it got me thinking...
The going rate for hops seems to be 2.29/oz or 6.99 for 8oz so 1.25/oz as an average figure. But time is money too and I make around 25/hr at my day job. So my packaging is not complete but my estimated numbers are going to be 35 oz of hops and two solid days of work to harvest and weigh/vacu-seal all my hops (20 hrs). Of course this is not including any other time spent, purely the harvest time. So that will put me at 43.75 dollar of hops for 500.00 dollars of labor. That means I lost 456.25 dollars by growing hops this year.
At 1.25/oz and 25/hr, I'm guessing most of us are loosing money.