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Where Do Americans’ Food Dollars Go?

May 14, 2019 Patrick Canning, Food Economics Division, Economic Research Service (ERS)

In 2017, consumers in the United States spent $1.2 trillion on U.S.-produced food. Nearly all food starts out on a farm, but did you ever wonder how the value added from processing, packaging, transporting, and marketing agricultural food products factors into the costs?

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