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—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. March 29.1969
A Larger Income Means A
Larger Family Food Budget
The amount we spent for food ing fiom rising incomes and a
lest year over $lOO billion growing population has profited
was nearly 50 percent higher the farnier. About a third of
than 10 years ago Most of this the consumer food dollar repre
-■',as the result of population scats the farm value of foods,
growth, which cieated more -^' so °f importance for farm
mouths to feed But also at work ers, the survey found a decided
was the amazing rise in per- pattern to the kinds of foods
-onal income. which the prospering family
In 1959, the median family bays,
mcome, measured in 1967 dol- With more money to spend,
Jars, was $6,200. By 1967, the shoppers choose costlier foods—
median family income had risen suc h as steak instead of ham
to over $B,OOO burgers, frozen peas in cream
A USDA survey beais out the sa^5 e m Pjf ce cammed peas
axiom that the more we make, These choices, made with in
the more we spend grocery ci easing frequency as income
buying included People with nses ’ increases the demand for
higher family incomes spend ceitain costlier fiesh forms of
more on food at the giocery t°od anc * f Ol moie highly pro
store than those with lower in- cessed food items
tomes, even though they aren’t As income uses, spending for
=recessanly consuming a gieater livestock pioducts—meat, poul
quantity of food So the rise in tiy, and dairy pioducts in
median income has probably ro creases fastei than spending for
suited in some mciease in the crop products such as fruits,
average amount that a family vegetables, and cereals,
spends foi gioceiy foods Among livestock products,
The suivey determined how spending for frozen and fresh
much families with diffeient foims such as ice cream,
income levels spent foi food shell eggs, turkey, and the like
Food spending for use at home —increase much moie rapidly
per family membei mci eased 1 than spending for canned, dried,
percent as family income i ose 3 or cured livestock foods ,
percent Spending foi fiesh crop pro-
Recent statistics revealed a ducts —which include flour as
similar pattern nationally Be- well as fiuits and vegetables—
tween 1959 and 1967, the average and dued and cured crop foods
amount spent for food pei capita inci eased slowly with a rising in
jose by one-fourth, at the same come level
time that ave age per capita in- However, the value of frozen
i-ome increase 1 nearly one half, crop foods in the grocery cart
The boost in etail food spend- increased very quickly among
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