A model is developed to forecast the food price component of the consumer price index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The'model relates retail food prices to prices received by farmers and to wage rates in food marketing industries. The farm value and farm-retail spread of the...

If the entire U.S. population were to select one food pattern among those that meet the American Heart Association recommendations for a fat-controlled, low-cholesterol diet, calorie intake would decline about 13 percent compared with present consumption. The cost would be about a tenth higher,...

Many measurements of consumer welfare have been proposed to reflect the income equivalent of a welfare change Measures used in policy evaluations are compensating variation, equivalent variation, Paasche variation, Laspeyres variation, and consumer's surplus This research presents an empirical...

This article analyzes 1955 data on gross farm income, production expenditures, net income, and marketing charges, by major commodity groups. This piece of research is largely a byproduct of the Agricultural Industrial Relations Study of 1955 which provided some insights into the impact of...

From time to time, many farm operators are faced with a choice between buying one of several types and sizes of combines and hiring a custom machine. Heretofore, research studies designed to aid farmers in making sound decisions of this type have considered primarily the effect of annual use, or...

In this review of the consumer preference work that has been carried on in the Bureau, the author covers the purpose, the scope, and selected findings. The program of research provides data which can be beneficial to producers, processors, wholesalers, retailers, and consumers.

Over the last 20 years, consumers have spent a declining portion of their income on food for consumption at home, while the share of income spent on meals purchased at restaurants, cafeterias, and fast-food chains has held constant This article attempts to explain this phenomenon by estimating a...

The current situation and prospects for coffee are of widespread interest to American consumers and to those who supply them, and it is of vital interest to the many Latin American countries that depend on coffee as a primary source of foreign exchange earnings. The smaller per capita use of...

The model for analyzing the impact of the Food Stamp Program on food purchased for use at home indicates that no continuous relationship exists between at-home food expenditures and income of food stamp participant households As previous studies have not allowed for this fact, they may have...

Measures of productivity, for agriculture as well as for the private sector of the economy as a whole, have a long and fruitful history in helping to interpret movements in output, prices, and factor costs. To an economist who is familiar with productivity research, and who has watched the...