What should have been presented is decade long trends about: farm and processor bank debt; return on equity; full and part - time employment trends; farm and processor business numbers; domestic versus overseas value adding to commodities;
volume and value of
imported ingredients and products; international versus Australian processing costs comparisons for major
foods like meats, flour, oils, milk products; and the farm gate price share of the consumer dollar for fresh
foods like fruit and vegetables, milk, meats, bread, juice, eggs.
Point - of - sale data were
imported into a purpose built Access 2003 database, where
food and beverage items were grouped and weights and
volumes.