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Grocery store prices for beef, pork, and eggs are up as U.S. supplies decrease

  • by Annemarie Kuhns
  • 9/16/2014
  • Food Prices, Expenditures, and Establishments
  • Consumer and Producer Price Indexes
  • Cattle & Beef
  • Hogs & Pork
  • Poultry & Eggs
Chart showing price changes for selected at-home food catefories, April-June 2013 to April-June 2014

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Retail food-at-home prices in the second quarter of 2014 were 2.3 percent higher than a year ago, as most at-home food categories increased in price. Retail beef and veal prices were up 10.8 percent as the supply of beef is strained by historically low herd sizes. Over the same time period, pork prices increased 11.2 percent, partially the result of the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus, which has reduced litter sizes and increased piglet mortality. Egg prices are also up, in part due to increasing exports and a strong domestic demand for eggs and egg products. The increases in beef and veal, pork, and egg prices are the largest year-over-year increases since the fourth quarter of 2011. This chart appears in the Food Prices and Spending section of ERS’s Ag and Food Statistics: Charting the Essentials data product, updated September 10, 2014. More information on ERS’s food price forecasts can also be found in ERS’s Food Price Outlook data product.

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