Axios: Inflation possibly upwards

🥕 Fresh inflation fears
 
Animated illustration of a supermarket cash register screen with a changing display ranging from one to five percent signs.
Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios
 
Americans are already paying more for groceries — and new inflation data this week suggests that the pressure is not letting up, Axios’ Courtenay Brown reports.

The latest: Food prices are rising sharply even before they reach supermarket shelves.📈

Wholesale fresh and dry vegetable prices surged 27% last month, adding to a 31% price jump the previous month.

These are the prices paid by food distributors, grocery chains and other businesses to farmers and other producers for eventual sale to consumers.

Zoom in: Unusually warm weather, crop disease and insect infestations have reduced lettuce and other leafy green harvests in California.

The Iran war has driven up the cost of fertilizer and fuel, making it more expensive to grow and transport food

🥬 Case in point: A regional grocery chain recently told Fed officials that it now costs more to transport a head of lettuce from California than to buy the lettuce itself, citing high diesel fuel prices.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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