 | United States. Congress. Joint Commission of Agricultural Inquiry - 1922 - 720 páginas
...what sort of marketing machinery you would effect sales of agricultural commodities so as to reduce the spread between what the farmer receives and what the consumer pays. Before you begin the answer to that question 1 would say that I do not want to break in on your program,... | |
 | 1922 - 716 páginas
...what sort of marketing machinery you would effect sales of agricultural commodities so as to reduce the spread between what the farmer receives and what the consumer pays. Before you begin the answer to that question I would say that I do not want to break in on your program,... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - 1924 - 802 páginas
...opens up the general subject of cooperative marketing. Gluts and wastes can not be overcome, nor can the spread between what the farmer receives and what the consumer pays be narrowed sufficiently until effective machinery has been set up to feed farm products into the markets... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee - 1936 - 70 páginas
...not think that the situation would be met better 'by cooperative marketing, with a view to shortening the spread between what the farmer receives and what the consumer pays? I introduced a bill when I first came to Congress, with that m mind. Mr. SCOTT. I think it is contemplated... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry - 1949 - 412 páginas
...prices without an OPA to fix consumer prices. Such an arrangement without OPA would vastly increase the spread between what the farmer receives and what the consumer pays; such a plan would necessitate, before you get through with it, a total controlled economy. With such... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee - 1949 - 418 páginas
...prices without an OPA to fix consumer prices. Such an arrangement without OPA would vastly increase the spread between what the farmer receives and what the consumer pays; such a plan would necessitate, before you get through with it, a total controlled economy. With such... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1950 - 254 páginas
...information. Mr. ABERNETHY. Are there any questions? Mr. GRANGER. I don't see the paragraph where you said the spread between what the farmer receives and what the consumer pays was 9.6 cents. Mr. HOLMAN. That is the national average compiled by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1950 - 252 páginas
...information. Mr. ABERNETHY. Are there any questions? Mr. GRANGER. I don't see the paragraph where you said the spread between what the farmer receives and what the consumer pays was 9.6 cents. Mr. HOLMAN. That is the national average compiled by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee - 1956 - 196 páginas
...consumers through higher meat prices or by producers through lower livestock prices. In any event, the spread between what the farmer receives and what the consumer pays would be greatly widened. But in the case of small packers the added cost of the so-called humane slaughter... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee - 1958 - 374 páginas
...afternoon. Senator HUMPHREY. I want to ask for documentation with reference to that sentence, "In any event, the spread between what the farmer receives and what the consumer pays would be widened." That is an assertion. What is your documentation ? Can you show me where the cost... | |
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Approximately one-third of what the prices ate that the consumer pays in the grocery store or the supermarket for food, approximately only a third of that amount is a result of what the farmer receives as farm income. The other two-thirds goes to middlemen,... 
