Resolution relating to an investigation of price spreads and margins for livestock, dairy products, poultry, and eggs.

Summary

Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Federal Trade Commission undertake immediately an investigation of margins that exist between farm prices of specified commodities (including livestock, dairy products, eggs, and poultry) and prices at retail, to determine: (1) the margins that exist now and have existed in the past for the specified commodities; (2) the changes in the relative values of the items that comprise the margin; (3) whether these margins fully reflect appropriate farm price changes; (4) whether any important level in the food marketing chain experienced any losses since August of 1973; (5) profits of each important level in the food marketing chain; and (6) on a preliminary basis, whether market power concentration exists to the extent that such concentration impedes competitive forces.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 26 June 1974

  Open at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.