Posted on 09/11/2021 6:36:24 AM PDT by blam
Putting food on the kitchen table has become much more expensive, squeezing household budgets at a time when many families are already stressed by the Delta variant surge hitting as kids go back to school.
Food prices rose a full percentage point in August, up from six-tenths of a point in July, defying predictions that inflation would cool off, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed Friday. Compared with a year ago, food prices are up 12.7 percent, outpacing the overall increase of 8.3 percent in the Producer Price Index.
On an annual basis, that is the highest level of food inflation in records that go back to 2010. The monthly figure is the third-highest on record, following May 2020’s pantry-raid that emptied many grocery store shelves and February 2011.
Prices of some staples have been driven sky-high. Some of the truly startling annual numbers from Friday’s Producer Price Index:
•Beef and Veal: +59.2 percent
•Pork: +34.1 percent
•Chickens: +32 percent
•Fish: +18 percent
•Turkey: +41.4 percent
•Fresh eggs: +31.7 percent
Shortening and cooking oils are up a jaw dropping 43.5 percent.
Not all food prices are up, of course. Dairy prices are down. Fresh fruits and vegetable prices have fallen (although canned fruits and vegetable prices are up).
Grain prices are up an incredible 98 percent...
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" Food prices rose a full percentage point in August, up from six-tenths of a point in July,
defying predictions that inflation would cool off, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed Friday.
Compared with a year ago, food prices are up 12.7 percent,
outpacing the overall increase of 8.3 percent in the Producer Price Index."
"On an annual basis, that is the highest level of food inflation in records that go back to 2010.
The monthly figure is the third-highest on record,
following May 2020’s pantry-raid that emptied many grocery store shelves and February 2011."
" Prices of some staples have been driven sky-high.
Some of the truly startling annual numbers from Friday’s Producer Price Index:
•Beef and Veal: +59.2 percent
•Pork: +34.1 percent
•Chickens: +32 percent
•Fish: +18 percent
•Turkey: +41.4 percent
•Fresh eggs: +31.7 percent "
" Shortening and cooking oils are up a jaw dropping 43.5 percent.
Not all food prices are up, of course."
H/T metmom
I missed it because I was online earlier in the day. Thanks !
“Dairy prices are down.”
I wish we could do something about this. My Cow Town is nothing BUT Dairy! During the Sham-demic, the farmer that rents crop land from us was told to drop milk production by 20%. He was GIVING AWAY MILK to any of us that wanted it - God Bless Him!
We reduced his rent by 20%, hoping to help. He’s still in business, but it’s certainly NOT the same for other Dairy Farmers in Wisconsin.
Joe Biden HATES Dairy Farmers! And I don’t understand it! He can’t HAVE his daily Pudding Cup without milk. ;)
The package of Italian sausage I was paying $6.50 when Trump was in charge was $9 today. I guess breakfast just got 30% smaller!
I was talking to an old timer (about my age) the other day and told him that between the ages of 5-10 I lived on a dairy.
Anyway we talked about dairies and he said that at the time I lived on a dairy (1948-1953) that there were 163 dairies in the county (Mobile). He said today that there are zero.
According to my wife, these prices have not reached our retail grocers in VA yet
“How many dairy farms are there in Wisconsin?
The state had 9,304 dairy farms on Jan. 1, 2017. The steepest single-year decline was in 2019, when 818 farms stopped shipping milk. The current number of dairies is a far cry from the 167,000 dairy farms that dotted the Wisconsin landscape in 1930, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service.”
Will the last Dairy Farmer leaving Wisconsin please turn off the milking machines? :(
I go right to the dairy farm for my milk.
Nice and fresh and raw. Good for you stuff.
People all around us sell eggs. We can get them anywhere.
Try this, delicious:
Hard to beat grilled.
Dog, the other red meat.
Not buying that.
Fixed it.
Rising fuel prices do not account for this kind of inflation. Sorry no sale.
Dairy farms are illegal alien magnets. It’s good they are closing.
Dairy prices are definitely up around here.
I talked to the manager of a Cracker Barrel about his staff shortage--some cooks were doubling as waiters and the restaurant had half the tables blocked off. He said that former employees were afraid to come back to work. If you couple that fear with the mandated benefits, you have another reason for the problem--not only wages but fear.
Well, than, cat, the other white meat.
Alf knew.
HAMster.
Of course.😋
Ha yeah actually they do
But you just cling to your emotion based ignorance like you always do instead of learning anything that might pry open your welded shut mind.
Not bad, not bad at all!
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