“Farmers Receive Less Than Sixteen Cents of the American Food Dollar”
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1 min readDec 1, 2018
“Although our food seems expensive, there is a big difference between the price consumers pay for food at the grocery store and the price farmers are paid for growing that food. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, farmers and ranchers only receive 15.6 cents of every dollar that consumers spend on food in the United States, the lowest level since 2006. Marketing, wholesaling, distribution, and retailing account for more than 80 percent of the American food dollar, leaving those who actually produced that food with a meager paycheck to take back to their families.”
