Special Margins and Costs Studies (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Special Margins and Costs Studies (Classic Reprint) written by United States Department Of Agriculture and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Special Margins and Costs Studies The total food marketing bill rose from 9 billion dollars in 1940 to 34 billion dollars in 1956. -this uninterrupted annual increase can be accounted for largely in terms of (1) the larger volume of food required to feed 38 million more people; (2) a persistent rise in the prices of all services and materials; and (3) an increase in the built-in services sold with food. Although retail food prices have remained fairly stable during the last two years, there is a growing concern about the rise in marketing costs, the net e ect of which is to lower prices to farmers. We find, therefore, that farmers and consumers are asking whether prevailing processing and marketing charges are a realistic reflection of the costs of performing the numerous services needed to move products from the farm to the consumer. Because of this deep - rooted interest in the cost of food, Congress in 1955 directed the Department of Agriculture to make a number of special studies cf the margin or spread between prices farmers receive and consumers pay for food. A number of these special reports have been published and they have helped to explain the relationships of marketing services to marketing costs. 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.