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LANDIS BROS. INC.
.ancaster 393-3906 Elm
. 284-4141
SHOTZBERGER'S
USDA Reviews 1971 Marketing
Spreads for U.S. Farm Products
The retail cost of a market
basket of U.S. farm foods inched
ahead an average of 1.7 per cent
in 1971, while the farm value of
equivalent products held steady
with the 1970 level, the U.S
Department of Agriculture
reported recently.
USDA’s Economic Research
Service (ERS) stated that all the
gain in retail cost of the
market basket for the second
consecutive year was
attributed to higher food
LANCASTER LABORATORIES, INC.
ANALYTICAL SERVICES DIVISION
Feeds, Flour, Forages, Foods
Dairy Products, Water, Waste Water
Bacteriological, Physical, Chemcial
2425 New Holland Pike
Lancaster, Pa. 17601
Telephone (717)656-9043 or
(717)656-9868
M.S. YEARSLEY & SONS
West Chester 696-2990
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marketing charges. The total
marketing bill for transporting,
processing, and distributing U.S
farm foods was $7l billion in 1971,
up 4 per cent from 1970. In
creased labor costs, which ac
count for about half the bill,
contributed to much of the recent
increase. Marketing charges took
about two-thirds of the $lO5
billion consumers spent for these
foods last year. The remaining
third represented the amount
that farmers received for food
A.B.C. GROFF, INC.
New Holland
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 5,1972
354-4191
products.
The marketing spread the
total charges for marketing food
from the farm to the consumer
widened 2.7 per cent in 1971. A
year earlier this margin had
expanded 7.4 per cent.
Economists point out the 1971
advance was caused by greater
spreads for dairy products and
foods from crops. The beef
margin, which had jumped 9 per
cent in 1970 and the pork margin,
up 20 per cent that year, actually
retreated slightly in 1971,
although remaining above the
1969 mark.
The ERS report notes that the
farm value, or gross return to
farmers, for products equivalent
to those in the market basket
averaged the same last year as in
1970 but the farmer’s share of the
food dollar declined. Last year’s
farm value was 8 per cent ahead
of the 1947-49 period. The
marketing spread for 1971 was 71
per cent higher than the earlier
period.
“For those going on cross
country flights,” reports the
Standard Oil Company of
California, “Alaska State law
requires that they carry the
following- two weeks’ food per
person; an axe or hatchet, gun
and ammunition, fishing gear;
knife, two boxes of waterproof
matches, mosquito headnet for
each person; signal flares, from
October 1 to April 1, snowshoes,
sleeping bags and blankets ”
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