IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/uerser/307685.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Energy Policies: Price Impacts on the U.S. Food System

Author

Listed:
  • Van Arsdall, R. Thomas
  • Devlin, Patricia J.

Abstract

Forthcoming energy policies should complement the goal of abundant food supplies at affordable prices, wherever possible. Energy costs represent 8 percent of farm production costs and 12 percent of the consumer food bill. It appears that energy price increases resulting from either the continuation of existing energy policies or the implementation of a moderate energy program could cause farm production costs to increase 2-3 percent from 1975 to 1985 in real terms, with the consumer food bill rising 4-5 percent in real terms. Anticipated price increases appear less significant when compared with the potential havoc that a disruption in the availability of energy supplies could produce for the U.S. food system.

Suggested Citation

  • Van Arsdall, R. Thomas & Devlin, Patricia J., 1978. "Energy Policies: Price Impacts on the U.S. Food System," Agricultural Economic Reports 307685, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uerser:307685
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.307685
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/307685/files/aer407.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.307685?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Earle E. Gavett, 1977. "Energy Policy and Research in Agriculture," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 59(5), pages 1083-1086.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.

      More about this item

      Keywords

      Resource /Energy Economics and Policy;

      Statistics

      Access and download statistics

      Corrections

      All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:uerser:307685. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

      If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

      If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

      If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

      For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ersgvus.html .

      Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

      IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.