Why Replace the Marketing Bill Series?
The new food dollar series replaces ERS's marketing
bill series. The new approach to assessing what our food
dollars pay for is superior to the former approach in
several key ways:
- The quality, timeliness, and completeness of the new
source data ensures that a complete accounting of the
entire food system is derived from a single consolidated
data source;
- A precise approach to measuring and reporting the
cost components of the entire food dollar in the new
series avoids the potentially confusing divisions of
the previous marketing bill series; and
- The new food dollar series provides a more complete
accounting of the modern global food system.
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