In spite of the economical crisis and the development of inflation, the agricultural prices declining trend in Western Europe remained basically unchanged over the seventies. Nevertheless, the agricultural prices evolution, compared with the general inflation, is more favourable in the high inflation and weak currency countries than in the low inflation and strong currency ones. Agricultural prices seem less related to the general level of prices than to the price of the intermediate consumptions. In the Netherlands, because of a particularly slow increase of the intermediate consumptions price, agricultural prices can stay far below the general level of prices, without any loss for the producers. In this, the Dutch strong position in the ...