Des Moines, IA (Northwestiowanow.com) — This Thanksgiving Iowa Ag Secretary Mike Naig from Emmetsburg hopes Americans remember who grows their food.
The National Farmer’s Union put out its annual report on the farmer’s share of your food dollar.
The average price for turkey is two dollars and forty two cents per pound, with the producer keeping SIX cents.
10 pounds of potatoes retails for six ninety-nine with the farmer getting a dollar twenty-two.
A two-pound ham snags nearly sixteen dollars, but only one twenty-eight for those who raised it.
A sixteen ounce can of sweet corn is 2.99 and the farmer’s share is thirty-four cents. And the pumpkin pie filling is four dollars and twenty-nine cents with 14 cents for the grower.