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After accounting for input costs, farmers and ranchers receive only 8 cents out of every dollar spent on food at home and away from home. The rest goes for costs beyond the farm gate: wages and materials for production, processing, marketing, transportation and distribution.

For a typical dollar spent in 2021 by U.S. consumers on domestically produced food, including both grocery store and eating-out purchases, 33.6 cents went to foodservice establishments such as restaurants and other eating-out places.

On average, farmers and ranchers receive 15 cents of every dollar spent on food. The rest of that money (85 cents if you're doing the math) goes to other areas of food retail like production and processing, marketing, and transportation and distribution. That amount varies greatly depending on the type of food.

USDA has just issued a revision to its food dollar series?its graphic explanation of how the U.S. food dollar gets spent. This tells us that 15.8 cents out of every food dollar goes to the producer; the rest goes for marketing.

U.S. farm establishments received 14.5 cents per dollar spent on domestically produced food in 2021?a decrease of 1.0 cent from a revised 15.5 cents in 2020?to the lowest recorded farm share value in nearly three decades.

For calendar year 2021, the farm share was 14.5 cents of each food dollar expenditure and the marketing bill was 85.5 cents accounting for the remainder of the food dollar.

Recently released US Department of Agriculture data show that, in 2021, farmers received a record-low 14.5 cents for every dollar Americans spent on food. Nevertheless, total farm cash receipts are expected to reach an (inflation-adjusted) record of $541 billion in 2022.