Food Price Changes: May 2007 - May 2008

Posted June 27th, 2008 by michaelcox

We all have heard that food prices have been increasing.  The Cattle Network has put together a schedule that lists the average price on various food items in May 2007 and the price for the same item in May 2008.

Here’s a few highlites:

Pruduct             07       08      change
Wheat            $4.88      $8.80    80.33%
Milk               $3.259   $3.760  15.37%
Celery            $18.30   $37.70   106.01%
Cucumbers    $28.50    $17.50   -38.60%
Lettuce           $13.60    $16.80   23.53%
Onions            $24.20    $31.70  30.99%

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2 Responses to “Food Price Changes: May 2007 - May 2008”

  1. WIFEY #1

    More reason to get going a sqaure foot garden, huh?

  2. Denise

    Interesting. I’d like to see this with 2005 and 2006 on there, too. Be interesting to see the corilation between the Dems getting control of Congress and the pricing changes.

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