Itself. This you could define as the amount the

Itself. This you could define as the amount the farmer gets for food products at the farm. At the present time, tills averages a little less than 40 percent of die retail price. In other words, less than 40cents of your food dollar gets to the farmer. What about the other 60 cents? Well, food on a farm is quite a different proposition from food in your store. It must be packaged. Very often it must be changed or process ed. How long has it been since you bought a steer? We want steaks, roasts, ground beef, and the like rather than a steer. So, in this 60 cents we find a lot of labo% or maid service. We are paying for the use of machines, buildings, pack ages (packages alone .take about 8 cents of the 60 cents) and supplies. All of these things are part of today's food Costs of all these things are included In the food price. Could food prices be lowered? Of course they could! Ho one argues, that the food marketing system is perfect and couldn’t be improved. A lot of money is spent every year on research to improve food marketing. A lot of money is spent each year to modernize or update things in marketing. Food marketing could and will be improved. Too, certain services could be cut out and their costs dropped from the bundle of prices. The trouble hefre is deciding which ones should be dropped. You may say you aren't interested in carryout service at a grocery store.