 The Farm Food Marketing BillJeannette Findlay No 319938, Miscellaneous Publications from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Abstract: Excerpts from the report: The bill for marketing domestic farm-originated food products to civilian consumers in this country was $41.4 billion in 1961, up about 2 percent from 1960, compared with an average annual increase of 5 percent for the period since 1950. The bill has risen by almost three-fourths in the 11 years since 1950. Increases in volume of marketings and in marketing costs per unit of product have contributed almost equally to this rise. The total marketing bill is the estimated total cost of assembling, transporting, processing, wholesaling, and retailing domestic farm-grown foods bought by civilians in this country. It is the difference between total civilian expenditures for these foods and payments to farmers -- the farm value -- for the equivalent quantity of farm products. Explicitly omitted are foods exported, used for nonfood purposes, and withheld from sale by farm families for their own use. An estimate of the higher retail cost of foods purchased in meals eaten away from home is included in the marketing bill Keywords: Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Labor and Human Capital; Marketing (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:uersmp:319938 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Miscellaneous Publications from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Contact information at EDIRC. |
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