Elitzak, Howard - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1999
Food prices, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), increased 2.6 percent in 1997. This increase was greater … and distributing food, as measured by the farm-to-retail price spread, were primarily responsible for the 1997 increase ….4 percent. The farm value share of the food dollar spent in grocery stores in 1997 was 23 percent, a decrease of 2 percent from …