The Americans, like ourselves, are suffering an explosion in farm gate prices.

This is valued at around 22.5 million with a farm gate price of 7.50 per kilogram.

It is taxation of this kind which multiplies the increase in farm gate prices by a factor of 3, 4 or 5.

He blamed the European Community being preoccupied with keeping farm gate prices down without applying the same rules to pubs and shops.

Value wise, the total palay production with a farm gate price of 10 pesos per kilogram amount to not less than 252.12 million.

Due to abuses of their market dominance by large retail chains, the prices paid by European consumers are, on average, five times higher than farm gate prices.

One example is milk production in Greece, where the milk cartel is pushing down farm gate prices and holding consumer prices sky high, thereby reaping huge profits.

Although, there is evidence that the drop in transportation costs caused farmers with suitable soils to diversify their crops in order to take advantage of relative farm gate prices.

Since many farms do not have significant marketing costs, it is often understood as the price of the product at which it is sold by the farm (the farm gate price).

With a farm gate price of approximately $125 per kilogram for dry opium, an Afghan farmer can make 17 times more profit growing opium poppy ($4,622 per hectare), than by growing wheat ($266 per hectare).

The products are bought by the village co-operatives from the local farmers at the normal market rates but are then sold onto the exporter at the enhanced WCP rates, which can produce a village level premium of up to 70% over the farm gate price.

The liberalisation of the markets, the incentives for mergers and takeovers and the quest for profit and competitiveness in the food industry have resulted in the sovereignty of the multinationals, in higher consumer prices, in lower farm gate prices and in higher profits for capital.

The beef industry in the United Kingdom is currently experiencing a fall in farm-gate prices.

For my part, such must include hands-on pressure on the multinational supermarket chains to give up the pricing strategy which suppresses farm-gate prices.

Supply-side measures for raising low farm-gate prices of tropical beverage crops (South Centre - 2006)

Decoupling is the start of a wider debate on farm-gate prices – it applies to milk just as it applies to tobacco and cotton.

The ministry accepted that farm-gate prices were a misleading basis for calculating cost benefits, but the new methods they came up with did not fully adjust the calculations accordingly, especially in the case of cereals.

In addition to the farm-gate price pressures which all farmers face, Scots producers, especially those in Highland and Island areas, have to cope with high costs of transportation and other challenges such as climatic conditions.