Food prices hae risen steadily since 0 ook office but very noticeably with this second term.
I know I’m paying twice as much for groceries as I was 5 years ago.
Certainly for meat and produce. Packaging sizes have decreased resulting in less product for relatively the same amount of money.
Food prices hae risen steadily since 0 ook office but very noticeably with this second term.
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True that. Food packages are also getting smaller, or at least their content is. Many companies are shrinking their products but maintaining the same price. Walking through the grocery store is a depressing exercise these days.
This is yet another problem that the administration and its allies in the leftist media have successfully covered up. They don’t govern; they manipulate.
Where I've noticed it is on the shelves of those grocery stores and discounters that cater to budget-savy customers. A lot of the quality items actually sell out in them lately.
A little trick....last day of the month, benefits start going out to pensioners and others who collect. The shelves tend to be fully stocked for that. I can always find fully stocked shelves and smaller crowds a day or two before that...Wednesday or Thursday this week are potentially good grocery shopping days.
Obama can’t take all the blame for that, he isn’t God. This is a case where supply and demand is working.
Although excessive regulation has raised the price of food, the drought in the West has overshadowed those costs.
The Western US backgrounds so many calves until they go to the feedlot and they’ve had to reduce their numbers significantly. Even if we have rain it will take years to build herds again.
The Western rivers are so depleted that farmers aren’t getting their full allotment of water and are growing fewer water, labor and input intensive vegetables and in a lot of places are making more selling their water to other farmers who are desperate to keep fruit and nut trees alive.
We have a swine disease that is killing piglets and there is some kind of problem with shrimp. The price of chicken will come up because of the high cost of other meats.
And now with the forced alternative energy legislation in some states and the EPAs war on coal, pumping water is getting ever more expensive. We need the rivers running so at least the hydroelectric plants in the West can still run.
Just in our county, one of the largest, most prolific farmers is starting their year out with a 30% loss. They had a hail storm and it was too late to replant.
We still have an abundance of food in this country. We have so much new technology but technology can’t control nature and we have to rely on God.