This publication provides a central reference on price spreads and related data on marketing farm food products. It should be a useful research tool and a source of information for those who frequently need to explain changes in farm-to-consumer price spreads. This publication brings together statistics and analyses from other publications and unpublished manuscripts. A selected annotated bibliography refers the reader to other references.

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.