Farmer’s share breakfast scheduled for March 14

In honor of National Agriculture Week, Wyandot County farmer’s share breakfast will be held from 7-9 a.m. March 14 at Trinity Evangelical United Methodist Church, 108 Malabar Dr., Upper Sandusky.
Breakfast includes pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, apples, coffee and juice for 50 cents.
The breakfast is open to the public.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service recently found farmers and ranches receive only 15.8 cents of every food dollar spent by consumers outside the home in the U.S. Additionally, more than 80 cents of every food dollar is spent in marketing, processing, wholesaling, distributing and retailing.
According to the National Farmers Union’s December Farmer’s Share, dairy farmers received $1.81 for 1 gallon of fat free milk (retail price: $4.19); wheat farmers netted only 20 cents of the $3.59 retail price of a loaf of bread; and tomato growers received 53 cents per pound (retail price: $3.28).

Posted by Daily Chief on February 26, 2013. Filed under Farm Country. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry