Food Cost Trends


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Price Spreads Between Farmers and Consumers for Food Products, 1913-44


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The material presented here represents comprehensive revision and expansion of series which have been published in the past, dealing with marketing changes and price spreads between farmers and consumers of food products, and includes a number of new series and comparisons.




Price Spreads Between Farmers and Consumers


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This bulletin provides a summary of several statistical series, relating to farm-to-retail prices spreads and marketing charges for farm products which have been developed in the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and published since 1935.




U. S. Agriculture


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Over the past 25 years, farmers have received a decreasing share of the consumer food dollar. Some analysts and farm interest groups are concerned that this decline can be attributed, in part, to increasing concentration in ag. Firms in highly concentrated markets may be able to exert market power by raising retail food prices while also depressing prices farmers receive for ag. commodities. This report provides info. on: (1) trends in concentration for various levels of the food marketing chain in major ag. sectors; (2) trends in retail food expenditures and prices; (3) trends in prices farmers received for major ag. commodities; and (4) the views of experts on the potential effects of concentration on ag. commodity and food prices. Illustrations.