Ag Rtport Tells Glamorous these figures ore Of Farmer's Pliaht not . . , but the U.S. Depart- Uf rarmer S night mem of Agriculture issued a The following editorial from fnct sllucl recently that helps the October issue of DOANE’S csU,bilstl trend reiallonsiilps be . , , ~ ~ tween food costs and farm Agricultural Report calls alien- operating expenses and income, tion to an often untold story about the rising cost of food, the Fl, ht - what . has 1,n nP cncd . to consumer’s dollar and the man arm production costs? The in at the foot of the “totem pole,” dex of prices farmers pay loi the farm producer. Even with input items, inlciesl, taxes and food prices going up . . . farm- wage i.itcs increased 28 pciccnl ers’ share of “dollais” goes from the 1957-59 period to mid -clown. 1969, langmg fiom as much al "BETTER-BILT" LIQUID MANURE SPREADER DISTRIBUTED AND SOLD BY S. M. MANUFACTURING Co., Inc. Owl Hill Road R. D. 4, Lititz, Penna. Call or vVrite For Free Demonstration 1 •c> •’W- During the next few months your shopping schedule will be busier than ever... in addition to normal purchases you'll be holiday gift shopping, plus buying for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year entertaining. Then there's the matter of those year-end bills. Now, more than ever, you need the Solid security and the oh-so-easy convenience of a Conestoga National Bank Checking Account. It saves you footsteps, protects you against losses and provides positive proof of payments made. Why delay? Open your Personal Checking Account-today at any one of our eight convenient locations. Conestoga—Bank mu mum«, umu mm LANCASTER CENTERVILLE/EAST/LANDISVILLE/UTITZ’ MANHEIM TOWNSHIP/MIUERSVIUE/ROHRERSTOWN MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION A Trustee fir The Lancaster County Foundation Phone 717-626-8585 Let a CHECKING ACCOUNT help you thru the holidays ahead 100 percent for taxes to only 3 percent for feed and a decline of 6 percent for fertilizer. This compares with a rise of 17 per cent in the ovetall consumer price index, and a retail price oi food up 24 percent in the same period. What share of the consumer’s dollar docs the farmer receive . . . and is he maintaining his pcicentago of this dollar over the yeais The following figures substantiate an aheady common belief the fanner is losing rathei diamatically to “maikct ing” in the race to consume laiger shaics of the cloll.it s spent foi food. Farmers receive an avc'agc of 40c of each dollar spent .it ictail for US. faim-pioduced food This is 10c less than was the case 20 yeais ago. A farm er’s “shaie” depends upon the puce he leceives and the costs of maiketing the product sold. And this share is smaller for highly “sei viced - ’ products such as bread (14c) than for unpro cessed products such as eggs (65c). Since the 1947-49 period, dol lars spent for food products in this country have climbed $46 1 billion ... to about $9O billion today. Just 22 percent of this total dollar increase was realiz ed by farmers. In the past ten years, how ever, suiprismgly little varia tion has occurred in the percent age faimers receive on a com modity or unit basis. In 1957-59, for example, farmers received 62c out of each dollar consumeis spent for Tieer In the first quai ter of 1969 they received 61c Figures for other commodities aie as follows: eggs, 64c in 1957- Lancaster Farming. Saturday. November 15.1909—33 50 compared to 65c this year Proper Care Of (lame Urged (an increase of 1c in the past _ , . , , 10 years); bicad, 16c compaied Scveial ™P° ,ls ° r K jm « "P Ol1 * to 14c; Potatoes and buttei, no ing dining warm weather have change: canned coin, 13c tom been i evened by the Game Com pared to 12c. mission this fall. All of this can be simplified ; uUlse(l lo h ‘ , , ncllc meat piopeilv dm mg waim days; into a few woids. Consumeis 0l ] K , lwl;i0 t ., m become tainted pay loss and less of total d.s m fuw houlb posable income for food . consumeis spend moie total dol- Spoilsmen should icmovc en lais, largely paving foi seivites bails of game immediately after and incicased maiketing costs killing, and the meat should be . . . faimcis’ shaie ol total kept as cool as possible until it spending continues lo go clown can be piotesscd
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