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U.S. Consumers Paying Less for Meat, More for Vegetables
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Farm costs, measured by the prices paid index were unchanged month-over-month at 221, but that’s 3.8% higher than March of 2012. Higher prices for nitrogen fertilizer, feed grains, and other fertilizers and supplements led the prices-paid hike.
Food processors and consumers paid more for feed grains and hay and commercial vegetables in March. The rising cost of feed is at least partially attributable to last summer’s drought and the impact it had on corn and hay crops. Lettuce and tomatoes led the rise in vegetable prices.
Meat prices fell in March, down 1.2% month-over-month and down 4.2% compared with March 2012. Livestock producers have been culling herds in an effort to force prices back up, but the immediate impact of slaughtering more animals is to lower the price.
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