Following increased scrutiny over supermarket relationships with dairy producers, and a national newspaper campaign by Sainsbury’s which flagged up its support for British dairy farmers, a statement published today (26 January) confirmed that Waitrose paid farmers the equivalent of 75.2p for four pints of milk.

What we do know is that some retailers have schemes in place that pay a sustainable price to their farmers for fresh milk . Waitrose, Marks and Spencer, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and the Co-operative have such arrangements where a farmer is paid a price above the cost of production for milk.

These figures indicate that farmers are producing more without good returns. Why are vegetable farmers not getting a fair price? Season after season, farmers face price uncertainties mainly owing to fluctuations in demand and supply caused by bumper or poor production, speculation and hoarding by traders.

The relative importance of farms, agribusinesses (such as seed and fertilizer suppliers), packagers and processors have also fallen slightly since 1993. Higher transportation costs, which impact many crops, might have a lesser impact on produce from California, which is frequently consumed closer to the farm.

In 2020, U.S. consumers spent an average of 8.6 percent of their disposable personal income on food—divided between food at home (5.0 percent) and food away from home (3.6 percent).

According to the USDA Economic Research Service, off-farm costs such as marketing, processing, wholesaling, distributing and retailing food products accounted for 85 cents of every retail dollar spent on food in 2019. That leaves an average of only 15 cents returning to farmers and ranchers.

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Cents on the Dollar On average, farmers and ranchers receive 15 cents of every dollar spent on food. The rest of that money (85 cents if you’re doing the math) goes to other areas of food retail like production and processing, marketing, and transportation and distribution.

The average age of all U.S. farm producers in 2017 was 57.5 years, up 1.2 years from 2012, continuing a long-term trend of aging in the U.S. producer population. Producers also tend to be experienced; they had been on their current farm an average of 21.3 years.

More than 92 percent of the country’s 2.1 million farmers are non-Hispanic whites, and more than 86 percent of those farm operators are men. The average age of farmers, which has been rising for decades, continued to inch up.

Everyone knows American workers are aging, but farmers are longer in the tooth than workers in almost any other occupation. According to the Labor Department, the median age for farmers and ranchers is 55.9 years, second among tracked occupations only to “motor vehicle operators, other,” who have a median age of 59.2.

Texas had the most farms in the United States in 2020 followed by Missouri and Iowa. Texas had more farms than Missouri and Iowa combined. The United States had 2.019 million farms in 2012. Texas had the most farms in the United States in 2020 followed by Missouri and Iowa.

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