Monitoring Trends in Retail Prices and Farm Shares of Food Products

Hayden Stewart

Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2018, vol. August 2018, issue 07

Abstract: Farm share—the ratio of what farmers receive for a food commodity to what consumers pay for the food product in grocery stores—varies by product and over time. Commodity prices and food marketing costs can rise and fall independently, causing swings in farm share.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Financial Economics; Production Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.302642

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