16-- Lancaster Farming, Saturda
From Local Ag Teachers:
The article this week was
prepared b> Glenn Weber,
teacher of agriculture,
Manheim Central High
School.
FOOD-A BARGAIN
IN DISGUISE
Food prices on an absolute
scale have risen over the last
\ears As one consumer
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18. 1974
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Thoughts
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stated, "Food prices are so
high that they are burning
holes in the pockets of the
consumer."
I’d like to consider three
main areas of the food price
problem. First, who is to
blame for high food prices?
Secondly, why have prices
risen as they have, and
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finally, what can we as
consumers do to adjust to
these new prices?
As a teacher and farmer, I
have had an opportunity to
witness the farm and food
price controversy from both
sides. I have been appalled
at the apparent lack of
knowledge of the producer’s
point of view on the part of
both the urban consumer and
those who have tried in the
past to administer price
controls.
In the early part of 1973
farm prices started to in
crease. In January,
February, and March far
mers began to respond to
these higher prices the way
they had responded to price
increases before -- by
gearing up to produce more
food and fiber than this
country could ever consume.
Then by last March and
April something changed the
Glenn Weber
farmers response to these
higher prices. The consumer
became impatient. We
started to hear about food
price freezes, boycotts and
consumer organizations
against the food producers
for lower prices. May I
suggest that those consumer
groups responsible for the
upheaval last April and May
really didn’t understand our
food marketing system.
They thought that in 2 or 3
months a farmer could in
crease his supply of meat to
the food stores. But as we
know, two to three months is
just not ample tune for
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number of boycotts, freezes,
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from the consuming public.
What they didn’t know is that
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increase the beef on the
supermarket shelf next
week. We could not increase
the meat supply by freezing
beef prices anymore than we
can solve teacher shortage
with a celling on teacher
wages. All the freezes,
ceilings, and boycotts did
was to discourage the far
mer and widen the gap of
understanding between the
producer and consumer.
Well, who is to blame? The
farmer claims his costs of
production have more than
doubled in the past ten years
while his prices paid to him
have not. The consumer
claims that it is impossible
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