TOPIC: 2019 Season

Just wondering if anyone has heard how the market will be this year

Haven't heard a word here. Hope it's high went scouting last week found over 100 plants. To some it ain't much but that's a crop around here

Dry is going for 500$ lb today

Same around her. Dry 500/pd Green anywhere from 160 to 225 a pound

Prices creeping up around here. One buyer today quoted me a price of $600-$650 pound for dry.

I took a load of cans to recycle a couple weeks ago, the recycling place is also the only ginseng buyer in my county. I checked their price and they were paying $275 a pound. Do you think they're trying to rip folks off?

I was thinking with the hot-dry weather there'd be less dug and prices would be higher.

I likely won't dig for a few years but the prices you guys are quoting makes the effort planting and eventually digging less demanding.

That has to be green price. Everything around here is still 600-650 a pound. I never thought I would’ve believed it but I’m a believer now that the rioting in Hong Kong is having a big effect on the dry price. I would’ve bet money that with the short digging season this year due to the heat and drought that we would’ve seen prices closer to 750-800 pound this year but I don’t think we’re going to see it.

Jim, I'm pretty sure their price list said "clean and dry" but my aluminum can bin is nearly full, I'll verify late next week hopefully.

By "green", do you mean freshly dug?

Yes freshly dug with the dirt still on it.

Took another load of cans in yesterday, the price for clean and dry was up to $400.

I mentioned offhand to the lady behind the window who pays me that the price had creeped up, and that it was over $600 in other states. Her response was "I don't know" and she slid the window shut. I never have liked her customer skills much and will find another place to take my aluminium business to. lol I suspect they under-pay for just about everything.