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INFB survey shows your July 4th cookout could cost a little less this year

Jun 28, 2016, 16:08 PM by Diane Brewer

Indiana Farm Bureau
NEWS RELEASE

June 28, 2016

For more information: Isabella Chism, 317-692-7803 (office)
765-513-6575 (cell)
Kathleen Dutro, 317-692-7824 (office)
317-727-0607 (cell), kdutro@infb.org

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Note to editors, news directors:
Our summer cookout market basket survey usually includes watermelon, which is a staple at many picnics and cookouts. But this year, something went wildly wrong with our data for watermelon prices, so we reluctantly decided to leave that data out of the survey results. The national survey and the 2015 summer cookout survey that are mentioned in this release have been similarly adjusted so that we’re comparing apples to apples, not apples to watermelons. We hope to get this problem fixed before next year’s summer survey. — Kathleen Dutro, INFB media relations specialist

An Independence Day cookout featuring some of Americans’ favorite summer foods – hot dogs, cheeseburgers, ribs, baked beans and other items – will be a little less expensive this year, according to an annual survey from Indiana Farm Bureau.

Farm Bureau’s informal survey showed that the average cost to feed 10 people at a summer cookout is $48.06 – or just over $4.80 per person. This compares to last year’s total of $48.78.

The summer cookout survey is conducted by volunteer shoppers who collect prices on specific food items from one of their local grocery stores. This year’s list included ground round, hot dogs, hot dog and hamburger buns, pork spare ribs, American cheese slices, baked beans, potato salad, corn chips, prepared lemonade, chocolate milk, ketchup and mustard. In all, 18 Indiana shoppers from across the state participated.

The Indiana survey results are included in a nationwide survey coordinated by the American Farm Bureau Federation. Seventy-nine volunteer shoppers in 29 states (including Indiana) completed the most recent summer survey. The national survey also showed a slight decrease overall, dropping by 6 cents to $51.57 in 2016.

On the Indiana survey, the price for ground round increased slightly, rising from $9.24 for 2 pounds to $9.46. But the price for pork spare ribs decreased slightly, dropping from $11.60 for 4 pounds to $11.28.

“Prices in the meat case are starting to look better from the consumers’ perspective,” said Veronica Nigh, an economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation.

“On the pork side, commercial production also continues to grow and is at the highest level in 25 years,” Nigh said. In addition, she added, the amount of product in cold storage is up 121 percent.

“This is helping mediate the normal seasonal upswing in spare rib prices we typically see around the July 4th festivities,” she said.

“Independence Day is our country’s birthday – a day set aside to remember how America became the land of liberty that it is today,” said Isabella Chism, IFB 2nd vice president and chair of the Indiana Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Committee, which is in charge of the market-basket survey program. “We celebrate by gathering family and friends to share in our abundance of food choices. Food is our connection to each other. The farmer's share of our food dollar reminds us that there are many people, including the farmers, truckers, grocers and cooks who help bring our food from the farm to our table.”

The summer cookout survey is part of the Farm Bureau market-basket series, which includes the annual Thanksgiving dinner cost survey, the summer cookout survey and two surveys that collect information on food staples that Americans commonly use to prepare meals at home. AFBF published its first market-basket survey in 1986.

The year-to-year direction of the market basket survey tracks closely with the federal government’s Consumer Price Index report for food at home. As retail grocery prices have increased gradually over time, the share of the average food dollar that America’s farm and ranch families receive has dropped.

“Through the mid-1970s, farmers received about one-third of consumer retail food expenditures for food eaten at home and away from home, on average. Since then, that figure has decreased steadily and is now about 17 percent, according to the Agriculture Department’s revised Food Dollar Series,” Nigh said.

Using the “food at home and away from home” percentage across-the-board, the farmer’s share of this $48.06 market basket would be $8.17.

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Items

Amount

2013

2014

2015

2016

% change

(2015-2016)

Ground round

2 pounds

$7.42

$9.02

$9.24

$9.46

2.4%

Hot dogs

1 pound

$1.97

$1.90

$2.02

$1.79

-11.4%

Hamburger buns

1 package

$1.35

$1.48

$1.40

$1.30

-7.1%

Hot dog buns

1 package

$1.32

$1.44

$1.48

$1.37

-7.4%

Pork spare ribs

4 pounds

$10.84

$11.68

$11.60

$11.28

-2.8%

American cheese slices

1 pound

$2.54

$2.96

$2.92

$2.95

1.0%

Baked beans

28-ounce can

$1.90

$2.05

$1.83

$1.75

-4.4%

Deli potato salad

3 pounds

$7.83

$7.29

$8.28

$7.80

-5.8%

Corn chips

25-ounce bag

$2.82

$3.17

$3.15

$3.36

6.7%

Lemonade

1/2 gallon

$1.80

$1.82

$1.91

$2.08

8.9%

Chocolate milk

1/2 gallon

$2.37

$2.39

$2.43

$2.50

2.9%

Ketchup

20-ounce bottle

$1.42

$1.35

$1.41

$1.40

-0.7%

Mustard

16-ounce jar

$1.11

$1.08

$1.11

$1.02

-8.0%

TOTAL

$44.69

$47.63

$48.78

$48.06

-1.5%

Per person

10

$4.47

$4.76

$4.88

$4.81

-1.5%

 

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