In some rural counties, producer price payments to farmers represented 12% or more of 1999 total net farm proprietor’s income. These counties include Franklin, Berkshire, Hampden and Worcester, Counties in Massachusetts; Kennebec, Androscoggin, Waldo, Franklin and Penobscot Counties in Maine; Sullivan, Belknap, Grafton, Strafford and Coos Counties in New Hampshire; Washington, Essex, Clinton, Montgomery and Ostego Counties in New York; and Addison, Essex, Franklin, Orleans, Grand Isle, Rutland and Windsor Counties in Vermont.
With regard to the selected county consumer impacts, a half-pass through of the over-order obligation represented about 3 thousandths of one percent (0.003%) of total personal income in Middlesex and Norfolk counties in Massachusetts and less than 3 thousandths of one percent (0.0025%) in Fairfield Connecticut. The personal income cost was highest in Essex and Orleans, Vermont, amounting to 8 thousandths of one percent (0.008%) of total county-wide personal income.
For the states overall, the net consumer impact of a half pass-through amounted to 4 thousandths of one percent for Massachusetts, less than 6 thousandths of one percent for Vermont and Maine, and less than 4 thousandths of percent for Connecticut.