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Farmers’ share of average food dollar could increase

Quoted: “The denominator part, or the biggest piece of that, was really that imports declined,” said Mark Stephenson Director of Dairy Policy Analysis at UW Madison.

While it’s too soon to tell now, experts believe that increase could widen because of the pandemic.

“We had restaurants and other institutional portions of sales just decline precipitously during much of 2020,” Stephenson said.