| Show food Fool costs cots up in income com e down OnUS on US farms there Is a considerable dlf ference between what the consumer pays pay for food and what the former fanner gets beta for it you dont have to tell farmers this they know it but often times their city friends doret dont stob to realize it observes vei bill rame Farnswor worth tb county agent with utah state university extension services A recent research report issued by the U S Depart department departie me t of agriculture shows chow I 1 that farmers actually got lower prices for their 1960 produce than from that produced in on the other hand consumers paid substantially more for the foods in 1000 th anthey did in 1947 the be extra money was abi absorbed orbed by increases in marketing cost for wages fuel freight rates depreciation rents advertising taxes and aid other costs TW them market peoples people Is i profits how shaw any decided trend as an anana aaa percentage of the I 1 idillar a though their total profits were P hv 01 aj 11 BO actually raad retail prices i A of food si romi less t during this period athani prices borall mand jand studies chow that food foca prices cince av cabout ipa about one sixth out but the con consumer sumar price index hat has risen about ane fourth 4 ince et marketing cost roxe rose faste faster thia than the coni consumer price jodeit thip the slower blower rise in food prices was dve due entirely to the lower prices received by farmers th therefore a re fo 1 as A co con a sumers gunners cag can thank the fact ahat food ak tt a bargain when compared jk the he total of thel their other q expenditures res in years t past ath Y the largest family spending pending item was lor for food but in it has been tari fair t j outstripped by 1 point out 1 that bidden taxes take at least ono one douar dollar out i oi of every give five consumers spend at the grocery tors store oj 41 so next tune time you buy gro ceries remember that farmers farmen are not getting bahe n lions share ot of your food dollars mr farnsworth said 4 BUT tig is M am i N nr s J 4 mrs mn 4 wh au we af u a hm who wk bave jobed a m wates train ta in an atto ink ik is ban lute ire F majl ja a 4 ro tain of f the chos wh santa to ire r was tm 00 gadway to as WL |
