Excerpt from Farm-Retail Spreads for Food Products This report is one of the series published by The Economic Research Service and its predecessor agencies in response to a widespread interest in farm-retail spreads. First in the series was The Margin Between Farm Prices and Retail Prices of Ten Foods, by Frederick V. Waugh, published in 1935. The following year, data for a market basket of 58 foods were published in Price Spreads Between the Farmer and Consumer by Richard 0. Been and Frederick V. Waugh. Farm-retail spreads for a market basket of farm foods have been published periodically since 1941. Recently, ers extensively changed data and calculating procedures followed in deriving spreads for beef and pork. Price data for additional cuts are now used in calculating average prices. These new procedures more adequately reflect the effect of increased sales at special retail prices. These changes plus new data and procedures used in calculating farm values of other products have improved the accuracy of the farm-retail spreads. Additional research has led to more accurate estimates of the farm product equivalents of several food products. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Farm-Retail Spreads for Food Products: Costs, Prices Agricultural policy considerations by various economic and legislative groups have long stimulated a keen interest in price spreads between the farmer and the consumer. The informational needs of these groups have centered on the measurement of these spreads and the relation of changes in spreads to changes in the production and marketing of farm products. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Farm-Retail Price Spreads for Dairy Products 1939-66 Source: Prices and price spreads from farm-retail Spreads for Food Products, 1947 64 Farm production per man-hour from Changes in Farm Production and Efficiency Output per man-hour in manufacturing farm-originated foods from Marketing and Transportation Situation Farm-wholesale price spreads from special tabulation covering 1947-64. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Farm-Retail Spreads for Food Products, 1947-64: Assembly, Transportation, Processing, Wholesaling, Retailing Changes in the retail cost of the market basket often differ slightly from those in the index of retail prices of food at home, a component of the bls Consumer Price Index. This food price index, like the market basket retail cost, relates to prices of food bought by urban wage-earner and clerical-worker families and single work ers for consumption at home, but it also covers purchases of imported foods and fishery products not in the market basket. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Supplement for 1956-60 to Farm-Retail Spreads for Food Products Current market basket statistics are published in The Marketing and Transportation Situation, issued quarterly by the Agricultural Marketing Service, and annual averages are presented in the January issue of that publication. Current data for many of the tables in Part I of M. P. 741 are published from time to time in The Marketing and Transportation Situation. The marketing bill statistics usually are published in the July issue. Methods employed in estimating the market basket statistics are described in Part II of M. P. 741. The nature of these data and factors affecting farm-retail Spreads are discussed in Part I. The market basket contains the estimated average quantities of farm food products bought by urban wage-earner and clerical-worker families in1952. Data are published also for 47 individual products and 7 product groups. M. P. 741 and this supplement give only annual data for some of these products; quarterly data may be obtained by Writing the Marketing Information Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington 25, D. C. Copies of Miscellaneous Publication 741, farm-retail may be purchased from the Government Printing Office Washington 25, D. C., for each. Please order directly from that office; do not send money to the Department of Agriculture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Farm-Retail Price Spreads for Cotton Products The spread between the retail cost of a group of 25 cotton products and the farm value of cotton required for manufacture of these products has remained fairly stable since This is in contrast to farm-retail price spreads for food and tobacco products, which generally moved upward in the period 1947-57. The 1957 annual average retail cost, farm value, and spread for the cotton products were the same as the 1947-49 averages. During an earlier period, 1940-47, each of the three averages rose sharply, with farm value increasing by a greater percentage than retail cost. However, the farm value of the cotton is a small part of the retail cost of the products. As a result, the percentage increase in the spread between retail cost and farm value was only Slightly less than the increase in retail cost. The farmer's share (farm value as a percentage of retail cost) varies among products, depending on the amount of workmanship in relation to the quantity of cotton used. Annual averages for 1 year shown in this report ranged from 5 percent for girls' dresses to 31 percent for sheets. The farmer's share for the group of 25 products averaged 15 percent in 1947-49, compared with 11 percent in the prewar years, 1935-39. The highest annual average farmer's share for the entire period, 1935-57, was 18 percent in 1951 and 1952. Business shirts, work shirts, and sheets are typical items for which farmer's shares differ because value added by manufacture and distribution differs in relation to the quantity of cotton required for manufacture. For each of the 3 products the farm value of cotton has increased in relation to retail price since 1939, as shown by the increase in the farmer's share. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Food Costs: Retail Prices, Farm Prices, Marketing Spreads The farm value is the return to the farmer for the farm products that go into the farm-food market basket. The farm retail spread is the difference between the retail cost of the foods in the market basket and their farm value. It consists of all charges by marketing agencies for moving products from the farmer to the consumer, including those for assembling, proc essing, transporting, and distributing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.