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 This publication brings together statistics and analyses from other publications and unpublished manuscripts.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, Farm, Marketing Consumers spent $477 per person for food in 1967, an increase of 28 percent since 1957. The increase in food expenditures was about times the rise in food prices during this period. Food expenditures increased more than food prices because consumers shifted to more expensive foods, bought more services with food, and bought more restaurant meals. Although food expenditures have increased, the real cost of food must be measured against income. Food expenditures have not increased as much as consumer incomes. From 1957 to 1967, income per person increased 52 percent or nearly double the ih crease in food expenditures. Thus, the percentage of income spent for food declined from an average of percent in 1957 to percent in 1967. In terms of the time the wage earner must work to pay for food, he was better off in 1967 than in 1957-59 because wages have risen faster than retail food prices. Thus, a factory worker could buy more of most foods with an hour's wages in 1967. 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.

Excerpt from Food Costs: Retail Prices, Farm Prices, Marketing Spreads The farm value is the return to the farmer for the farm products that go into the farm-food market basket. The farm retail spread is the difference between the retail cost of the foods in the market basket and their farm value. It consists of all charges by marketing agencies for moving products from the farmer to the consumer, including those for assembling, proc essing, transporting, and distributing. 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.