USA: Economic Research Service, U.S Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10576
Notes:
37 pages., ERS staff report - No. AGEX831007. Also available online from Hathi Trust Digital Library., via library catalog., Food manufacturers spent $7 billion in advertising in 1997. Most of
this advertising focused on highly processed and highly packaged
foodswhich also tend to be the foods consumed in large quantities
in the United States relative to Federal dietary recommendations
such as the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Advertising expenditures on meat, fruits, and vegetables are negligible. In contrast, the
U.S. Department of Agriculture spent $333.3 million on nutrition
education, evaluation, and demonstrations. This is approximately
what the food industry spent on advertising just for coffee, tea, and
cocoa, or for snacks and nuts; slightly more than half (60 percent)
the amount spent on advertising for carbonated soft drinks, and less
than half the amount spent promoting beer, or candy and gum, or
breakfast cereals.
Jardine, W.M. (author / President, Kansas State Agricultural College)
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1922-07-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22529
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Presented at the general session of A.A.C.W., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 12, 1922. Included in Agricultural Publishers Association, Special Bulletin of July 1, 1922, pp. 1-5., Urges advertisers to focus not only on what farmers buy, but also on helping them market what they produce. "I am firmly convinced that the marketing of farm produce in America is going to offer a steadily increasing opportunity for the expert in selling."
