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If you’re distressed
by high food costs...
Since 1948 retail food prices c nsen an estimated 34 per cent and disposable personal income has nearly
doubled. Yet the dairy farmer • "ho tn New York State last year earned the princely wage of 40 cents an
Kour after costs —■ is receiving the «amc price for his milk that he did in 1948. And, the farmer can not exploit
family labor any further in effort-, to improve efficiency.
Does this sound like today - (uit\n. o ,i is sharing in the fruits of our high-flying economy in which most of
ns are'earning more, buying more, enjoying more 7
Consider, too, that the price or equipment and supplies the farmer must buy has doubled and tripled since
3948. In the last five years the dayman has been hit by drought conditions drat have often forced him to buy
the grain and hay he used to r a himself. Yet when he goes out to borrow money —as he must, because of
his plight —he often finds inu.r-'-t r,.tc, so high that
he is forced to quit farming 1 aM more than
5,000 dairymen in New Y< r',. hm sylvama and
Vermont went out of business ... because costs wcic
too high, returns too low
Eastern Milk Producers :!■< hai gaining cooper
ative with 10,000 dairy farmer mi.n.K ts in the above
states feds Mrs. Consume! '-hnuld realize that
food prices had to rise and-probabU huuld go higher
Everything else ("wages, trampoitaiuMi, processing,
sales costs) has increased in price during this period
of prosperity, and these all a(i.-.d tfs_ price of food
But let’s not make the dt'T\man the scapegoat
for a situation over which he hav m> control. A.s \ou
Can see from the chart on the ngii' i! >. farmer is not
getting higher prices.
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