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• Optional sprockets provide a full range of • Power sharpened knives New fully shielded
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• Massive 9-knife cutterhead Knives have • Available in 1 row unit 2-row unit
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The Price of Bread
Bread, because it’s so universally
consumed, often commands center
stage as an economic barometer.
One of ERS’s jobs includes keep
ing a close watch on its cost.
In the midst of the sl-a-loaf con
troversy, ERS economists took pen
in hand to see just what effect the
price of wheat has on a loaf of
bread.
And for most consumers, the re
sults might be surprising.
For one, the price of a bushel of
wheat would have to go up about six
times from the March level to raise
the cost of a pound-and-a-half loaf
of bread to $l. That would put the
farm price of wheat at about $3O a
bushel.
Wheat adds 4 cents a loaf. Even
if the farmer had donated his wheat
DIVVYING UP. Latt near, the
average price of a 1-pound loaf of
bread was 2V/t cents. Of this the
retailer got nearly 5'A cents, the
baker 14 cents, the miller 1 cent,
“other” spreads 1.7 cents, and the
farmer, 5*A cents.
Phone 285-4538
last year, consumers would have had
to pay better than 23 cents for a 1-
pound loaf of white bread. The cost
of wheat added only 4 cents.
In all, farmers supplied ingredi
ents that accounted for about a fifth
of the cost of a pound loaf of bread.
This includes wheat, lard, shorten
ing, sugar, and dried milk.
Normally, farm price fluctuations
have very little effect on the price of
bread. Up until last year, increases
at the farm level had added only
slightly to the cost of bread over the
past quarter of a century.
Sets record. But for 1973, average
farm value increases added 1.7 cents
to the price of a pound loaf of
bread. Along with marketing cost in
creases, this sent bread to a record
annual jump of 2.9 cents.
Actually, the changes within the
year—January to December—were
much sharper than indicated by the
averages. The farm value rose from
4.3 cents in January to 7.2 cents in
December —an increase of 2.9 cents
Retail Spread
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just in farm value. Thus, with the
rise in marketing costs at 4.1 cents,
the retail price of a pound loaf of
bread rose ? cents from the first to
the end of the year.
The rise in wheat prices and the
farm value is mainly attributable to
a world situation of tight grain sup
plies that has brought unusually
strong export demands for the past
2 years.
Only the sixth time. The sharp
rise in farm prices drove up the
farmer’s share of the price of bread
for only the sixth time in the past
quarter of a century. It went down in
12 years and remained the same in
the others.
Bread prices in 1947-49 averaged
13% cents for a pound loaf. Prices
in 1973 were up 14 cents to 27%
cents a loaf. Twelve cents of this
increase went for marketing and 2
cents to the farmer.
Here’s a look at how the 1973 av
erage price of 27V2 cents was ac
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