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Market Basket Report Shows July 4th Picnic is Affordable
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 07/01/2015

The state and national Farm Bureau organizations have put together some figures on what it costs the average person to cookout this year on Independence Day. According to the summary, a Fourth of July picnic including hot dogs, cheeseburgers, condiment, pork spare ribs, deli potato salad, baked beans, corn chips, lemonade, chocolate milk and watermelon runs just less than $6 per person.

The Wisconsin Farm Bureau estimates that it would cost about $58.86 to feed 10 people during the holiday weekend. Nationally, that price is closer to $55.84 or $5.58 per person.

"Many of us in Wisconsin like nothing more than to fire up the grill and have a picnic for the Fourth of July," said WFBF Communications Director Amy Eckelberg. "Our survey shows that you can do this for $5.89 a person, which in most cases is cheaper than a trip to the drive-thru."

A total of 88 volunteer shoppers in 30 states checked retail prices for summer picnic foods to put the informal survey together. In Wisconsin, volunteer shoppers in 25 communities conducted the survey in local grocery stores.

Meanwhile, the retail grocery prices have gradually increased over the last three decades while the share of the average dollar spent on food that farm families receive has dropped. In the mid-1970s, farmers received about one-third of consumer retail food expenditures in grocery stores and restaurants. Since then that figure has decreased steadily and is now about 16 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.


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