The production and distribution of food is perhaps the most important single vertical segment of our national economy. More than one-fourth of our personal disposable income goes for food. On the other side of the picture, our farmers receive more than two-thirds of their income from sales of...

The National Food Survey has been a carefully watched gauge for both wartime and postwar British food administration. It has measured the successes and the failures of the policies and programs for maintaining equitable distribution of foods essential to the civilian population of the United...

Statisticians studying the demand for farm commodities have long made use of data collected by home economists, particularly those issued by the Institute of Home Economics of the United States Department of Agriculture in reports of research on family dietary levels and economic problems. They...