@article{AgriculturalEconomicsDivision:305834,
      recid = {305834},
      author = {Agricultural Economics Division, Agricultural Marketing  Service},
      title = {Measuring the Supply and Utilization of Farm Commodities:   New Indexes, 1924-54},
      address = {1955-11},
      number = {1485-2020-978},
      series = {Agriculture Handbook No. 91},
      pages = {117},
      year = {1955},
      abstract = {Excerpt from the report Foreword:  During the last 30  years, supplies of farm commodities have changed  substantially. These changes reflect trends in production,  in stocks, and in imports.  Significant changes have  occurred in utilization, also.  These have resulted from  trends in domestic civilian consumption, in consumption by  the Armed Forces, in exports, and in amounts used for feed  and for other purposes.  Research economists have long,  wanted a broad statistical measure of these changes in the  supply and utilization of farm commodities.   We hope that  the material given here will provide much of the necessary  information.  The index of supply-utilization of all farm  commodities presented in this report includes a master  index and coordinated subindexes.  These indexes measure  the flow of farm commodities from our  farms and from  overseas, and out of stocks into use as food or  for  nonfood purposes in the United States, for civilians and  the  Armed Forces, into export channels, or back into  stocks.  Because all components have been worked up in  terms of equivalent farm values in constant dollars, these  indexes provide the necessary information for simultaneous  cross section and time series analyses.  The framework of  the indexes provide for much flexibility because the value  aggregates, given in the appendix, can be shifted around to  meet the needs of particular analyses.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/305834},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.305834},
}