The Cost of Food
The cost of food realtive to household spending is persitently going down not up.
Recent policy debates highlight the cost of food, rasing the concern of predatory pricing and inflation.
We have spent decades optimizing for bushel per acre in all major crop systems. The resulting increase in output and deflationary impact reflects systematic innovation.
The reality is the food, in the form of groceries, costs less.
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