Research Reports |
Title: | The Wheat Farmers' Contribution to Rising Bread Prices |
Authors: | William Wilson, Gene Griffin, and Robert Tosterud |
Publication Date: | Mar 1976 |
Report #: | SP-2 |
TRID #: | 01789456 |
Keywords: | costs, market structure, prices, wheat |
Type: | Research Report – Staff Papers |
The purpose of this submittal is two-fold: 1) to demonstrate the fact that there has been a structural change with regard to the ingredient cost/retail cost relationship in recent years in the bread processing industry; and 2) to establish the fact that the American wheat farmer is neither the great benefactor or cause of rising bread prices.