A NEW LOOK AT WHERE OUR FOOD DOLLARS GO

The ERS marketing bill has been a popular statistical series for food market observers interested in knowing the costs of getting food from farm to table. The marketing bill series identified the costs of processing and marketing the raw farm commodities contained in a typical dollar’s worth of US-produced food and the share going to farmers.

In February 2011, ERS introduced a new data product called the food dollar series that uses the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ annual input-output tables to provide a more complete accounting of U. food spending at both grocery stores and eating places. The new food dollar estimates are composed of three primary series that slice the same food dollar differently to provide a variety of perspectives. The new series spans 1993 to 2008 and will be updated annually.
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