Retail Food Prices Less Volatile Than Farm and Wholesale Prices

Gianna Short and Patrick Canning

Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2020, vol. May 2020

Abstract: Multiple factors are at play as to why swings in farm commodity prices have less impact on food prices as food gets closer to the dinner table. Particularly for highly processed food products and restaurant offerings, farm commodity prices are a small piece of retail food prices.

Keywords: Demand; and; Price; Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/303689/files/U ... olesale%20Prices.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:uersaw:303689

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.303689

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().