During the early days of farming in Pompano, the price a farmer received for produce could vary widely from year to year.

In the best year, a farmer could get as much as $7.00 a hamper for beans. When the market was down, the price could drop as low as $1.00 a hamper, which hardly paid the cost of production. Most years the price was somewhere between three and four dollars.

A farmer could anticipate harvesting around 125 hampers an acre, although the yield could go much higher under optimum conditions.

Farmers expected to harvest three crops of beans during the growing season.