What Makes Food Prices?

Marketing Economics Division, Economic Research Service
1966 unpublished
Food prices go up or down for many reasons—some physical like weather, some economic like labor costs, some because of merchandising practices like weekend sales. Here briefly is more about why food prices can fluctuate month by month, week by week, even day by day.
doi:10.22004/ag.econ.320884 fatcat:pus6qxib7veb5lan65qy5yrtcq