You spend $100 on groceries in the US. How much of it reaches the farms that grew the food?
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$18.5
$18.50 of every $100 Americans spend on groceries reaches the farm. The other $81.50 pays for processing, packaging, trucking and the store. At a restaurant the farm's share drops to $7.10, because cooking and serving the food is the biggest slice of the US food dollar.
In Canada, farms received 22.8 cents of every grocery dollar in 2021 and 9.6 cents of every restaurant dollar.
Farms get $18.50 of every $100 Americans spend on groceries. At a restaurant, the farm's share is $7.10.
Source: USDA Economic Research Service, Food Dollar Series; Canadian comparison from Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics (Sep 2025), Statistics Canada input-output data · checked Mar 2026