Food Expense and Farmer's Share of Food Dollar

Florida Agricultural Facts
Food Expense and Farmer's Share of Food Dollar

All food expenditures for U.S. families and individuals totaled $663.3 billion in 1998.

Food spending accounted for only 11.0 percent of the total disposable personal income, down slightly from 1997.

Consumers spent $584.6 billion for U.S. - produced food in 1998, with farmers receiving only a 20.3 percent share of the food dollar. The remaining 79.8 percent of the American food dollar went for marketing, processing, wholesaling, transportation and retailing.

U. S. Income Spent for Food
U. S. Retail Food Expenses and Farmer's Share

U. S. Income Spent for Food ( In Billions of Dollars )

Year	Disposable Income	Home Food	% of Inc.	Restaurant Food	% of Inc.	Total Food	% of Inc.
1998* 1997* 1996* 1995* 1994*	$6,027.9 $5,795.1 $5,534.7 $5,277.0 $5,018.7	$386.3 $337.1 $371.7 $359.5 $343.5	6.6 6.7 6.7 6.8 6.8	$255.0 $253.3 $239.4 $229.2 $218.8	4.4 4.4 4.3 4.3 4.4	$663.3 $640.0 $611.1 $586.7 $582.3	11.0 11.1 11.0 11.1 11.2
1990 1980 1970 1960 1950	$4,050.5 $1,952.9 $722.0 $346.7 $188.1	$304.6 $179.1 $74.2 $49.3 $33.8	7.5 9.2 10.3 14.2 17.9	$175.2 $85.2 $26.4 $12.1 $7.8	4.3 4.4 3.7 3.5 4.1	$479.8 $264.4 $100.6 $61.4 $41.5	11.8 13.5 13.9 17.7 22.0
1940	$69.7	$13.0	18.5	$2.3	3.3	$15.2	21.7

U.S. Income Spent for Food

U. S. Retail Food Expenses and Farmer's Share

Year

Food Costs

Market Costs

Market %

Farm Value

% of Farm Share

1998

1993

1988

1983

1978

$584.6

$491.3

$398.8

$315.0

$216.9

$465.8

$382.1

$301.9

$229.7

$147.4

$118.8

$109.2

$96.8

$85.3

$69.5

1973

1968

1963

1958

1953

$138.8

$96.8

$74.0

$61.0

$51.0

$87.1

$65.9

$49.9

$39.6

$31.5

$51.7

$30.9

$24.1

$21.4

$19.5

Source: USDA Economic Research Service

U.S. Retail Food Expenses and Farmers Share

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