This publication provides a central reference on price spreads and related data on marketing farm food products. It should be a useful research tool and a source of information for those who frequently need to explain changes in farm-to-consumer price spreads. This publication brings together statistics and analyses from other publications and unpublished manuscripts. A selected annotated bibliography refers the reader to other references.

Excerpt from Food Costs: Retail Prices, Farm Prices, Marketing Spreads; Revised August 1965 Everyone is concerned about food costs, in one way or another. The consumer's food dollar pays for the services of the many differ ent groups in the economy that produce, process, and distribute our food supply. It pays for the workers in agriculture and for the services, supplies, and equipment used in farming. It pays for proc essing, transporting, wholesaling, retailing, and other marketing services. The money the con sumer spends for food becomes ih come to the farmer and the food industry worker. So farmers, consumers, and market agencies are all interested in how the food dollar is distributed. This publication summarizes major trends in farm and retail prices of food, marketing charges, and the relation between food costs and consumer income. It shows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.