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
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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