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House Panel Probing Rising Meat Prices Is Told
A House committee hearing on rising meat prices heard that distribution costs, not farm prices, largely drive consumer meat costs. Rep. John Melcher and a cattlemen’s representative showed wholesale to retail spreads widening over 20 years, from 29 to 42 cents. Bracelets of farm, consumer, and small farmer interests were exchanged as Mrs. Ross De Lorenzo urged clarity on who benefits from the consumer dollar on meat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times News Service
Washington
House
John Melcher
D-Mont
Melcher
Government Operations Committee
Long Island
Ross de Lorenzo
Levittown
John S. Monagan
D-Conn
Subcommittee
de Lorenzo
Monagan
Louis S. Freed
Virginia Knauer
Nixon