Nevadans?

[NevadaRon]

I've looked into regulations for selling eggs after someone complained aboout people selling them on Craigslist. In Nevada it is up to the county for small producers and I seem to recall that the only county that cared was Clark. I called the Lyon County Ag Dept. and they said they have no regulations. But if you want to make sure you are 100% legal, you should put the pack date on the egg carton - using a "Julian" date, i.e., a three-digit number of days since the beginning of the year - the Julian date for today would be 013 (Hey! I just noticed it's Friday the 13th!) - 30 days from now (Feb. 12th) it would be 043, etc. Also, an address (can be a P.O. Box). The other 100% legal requirements would be grade and size. Grade has to be AA or A for fresh eggs (not processed into another food or food product). Grade has to do with freshness - I'm sure all of our eggs would qualify for AA or A. It is permissible to mix both AA and A in the same carton, and also to mix sizes. So all you have to put on the carton is "Grade AA and A eggs, assorted sizes" and you are good to go!

I found a really cheap place for egg cartons. You can get seconds for 13¢ ea. I'll post a link to the site this evening. The cartons are made by molds pressing on a sheet of wet paper pulp then heating it to dry the, These seconds were "cooked" a little too long for commercial sale but I haven't noticed anything obviously wrong with them.

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[SunnyDawn]

This is bringing back some memories. I'm pretty sure when I checked that egg shell thickness and uniformity also had something to do with grading an egg as well. We cannot sell anything with odd or deformed shells. I have an egg scale that measures in 100ths of an ounce so finding out what size they are is easy as well. I have the chart printed out but can make copies if anyone wants.

I'm wondering Sheryl if that other gal just mixed her eggs and sold them by carton weight as "large" or "extra large". The cartons I have are all large but I've found the extra large fit in these easily too.

Ron it's great to know if this works we have a cheap outlet for more cartons. The cheapest I was able to find were .25 cents a carton. They are misprints but mailing labels worked just fine to cover the print up. Not that marking it out won't work just as well. Happy friday the 13th!

Shoot that last 1,000 pages went fast!

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[sherylreno]

The couple who were selling the eggs said they were all large eggs only. Now that's another issue too, see my chickens are laying large to extra large and a few jumbos so I have a lot of extra large in my cartons as you can attest yourself Sunny on the size of eggs my ladies lay. I'm still waiting for 2 more to re-start with their laying again. Sundae is squatting again and Monique isn't but they are both eating the calcium now which they weren't much before.

I'll look into the regulation stuff. I do know the couple who were selling the eggs did not grade them nor did they have new cartons without labels from the store already on them. They did not date any cartons they handed out that I could tell. They had a sign on the table saying the eggs were laid between these dates and are good until xxxx date. They allowed 6 weeks for their eggs.

I guess you can sorta tell I watched them closely every Saturday when I went there. There was also a ranch selling their beef there as well. Not to mention all the produce from Yerington and the California Valley's and Coasts. One weekend only there was a van and they had BBQ and were roasted peppers for people to purchase. It was one of the biggest hits but they were not there again for a few more weeks and they were only selling the peppers without roasting them so they must have jumped on the BBQ with the huge barrel over it when they were able to?

 

[sherylreno]

Here's information on dates and times along with places for the farmer's markets in Reno:

http://www.visitrenotahoe.com/reno-tahoe/what-to-do/shopping/farmers-markets

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[SunnyDawn]

Mmmm, they could get into trouble if someone felt like turning them in for the cooked stuff not being done in a certified kitchen. From what I've read folks still do it but all it takes to get shut down is one person to get upset cause they were told they couldn't do it... In fact that may be what happened. I hate those regs cause they go against what a farmers market was meant to be in the first place. Local products produced by your own community members.

The reason it irritates me the most is that it has been large corporations that have been responsible for the health scares we keep hearing about not small, local kitchens. Oh well I guess that's progress.

OK so we could sell our extras and jumbos for more? We can go by carton weight instead of individual egg weight. The chart I have lists both. That makes it a little easier.

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[SunnyDawn]

Just checked out the link. I think quite a few of those would work. Hopefully you can find a list with contact info as well. We can't do much til we get some prices and availabilty.


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[sherylreno]

Here's the Booth St. information. I'll give them a call tomorrow:


Reno Booth St. Farmers Market

Booth St. at California Ave.
Reno, NV 89502
(775) 746-5024
Web site: http://www.crystlbrdg.clearwire.net
Email: crystlbrdge at hotmail dot com

The website does not work.

 

[2seth2]

people would be willing to pay mor e for "special eggs" we could add a extra 25- 50 cents to our colorful eggs greens, blues, and realy dark browns like marans this many or many not work and sell white, normal brown, and lite brown( tinted) in our other packeges. we could also sell our "mini eggs"( bantum eggs these would be a favorite of little kids) at half price of the normal eggs.

 

[2seth2]

sheryl the site is forbidden

 

[2seth2]

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