farmgate
English
Etymology
farm + gate
Adjective
farmgate (not comparable)
- Describing the price of goods if they were purchased directly from a farm, without markup added by retailers.
- 1995, Fred E. M. Gillham, Cotton production prospects for the next decade: Volumes 23-287, page 195:
- It is important to note that the farmgate price can be quoted either in terms of seed cotton or lint.
- 1999, William Ascher, Why governments waste natural resources, page 228:
- From a farmgate price of nearly 150 pounds sterling in 1955-57, the Cocoa Board steadily reduced the price […]
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