my grammer sucks at 2am.... farm inputs have tripled this year. and thats after several years of hugh increases in seed and fertilizer..

corn in cornflakes? 20cents, wheat in a loaf of bread, still less than 30cents... all the extra money is added on between the farmer and the consumer. at one time, the joke was that tiger woods made more from a box of wheaties than the farm... that was when wheat was $3.50 per 60 lbs. now its about $13 for 60 lbs. btw, farm many inputs have tripled this year...

I saw this comming and got my Garden in in the ground. When you hear rumors of $4 lb of tomatos it makes sense to stick a plant in the ground.
For me it has changed the way I shop. Stocked up the freezer, and can't see the cost savings driving from Evansville to Woodmans. I shop at the local pig. Can't wait for farm stands to pop up again so I can cut many of the middle men out of my food chain

attorneyatlarge: If you were a true attorney, you would realize that there is NO such program in the state of Wisconsin any longer. If this woman you proclaim to be a, "welfare queen", happens to be receiving food stamps, more than likely she is raising children without the full-time help of the child/children's father, either physically, in which she is working 2 or more low-paying jobs and/or possibly attending school at the same time, or financially, in which he is NOT paying his child support. This would mean she has to rely on the tax payers to foot the rest of her grocery bill. Either way, dad's not pulling his fair share.
Sounds like some woman may have done YOU wrong? Don't bring it to the forums.

Serdan has it right.
If you want to eat cheap your going to get fat or you're one of the lucky people. Gardens are definatly the way to go this year.

To Foxyroush... Food prices go up when gas prices go up because the cost of getting the product (food) from field to market (your mouth)goes up. I pay $4.39 for diesel fuel now and a year ago I paid $2.75. This has to be factored in. Please, Please learn some basic economics. When market prices are determined the economic status of the consumer is NOT considered. Supply and demand does, along with taxes, expense of production and government regulations. The more you know the less vulnerable you are.

Foxyroush= How are low income people doing it, you ask?
Read the Janesville messenger. They asked people if they noticed higher prices.
One welfare queen had the gall to say "No, I haven't noticed, probably because I pay with food stamps."
Wow! Apparently if you are on food stamps, you dont notice your food dollars are buying less.
So how are they doing it? Simple. Us working people are paying for it.

I spent $40 on vegetables alone a couple of weeks ago. So, we bought a rototiller, and put in a garden. Then, in late summer, I'll learn how to can.

The best advice I have for buying food is: if you can't pronounce the indregidents don't buy it!

Whose idea was it to use a food staple such as corn for a fuel? Seems pretty dumb to me. They are mandating that ethanol to be used in all gasoline and will slowly up the percentages until 2020. It's only going to get worse folks. Corn is used in everything.

"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche."

I've noticed some prices going up. I'm a big fan of store brands so that keeps my groceries somewhat under control. I also take my calculator and my list and add up as I go along and stop at my money limit or at the end of my list, whatever I get to first. I've had my times of living on ramen, so I try to get the most for my money. Logli had a good sale on yesterday with lots of "buy one get one" and 5 for 5's and 10 for 10's.

Food prices are directly related to gas prices. The higher diesel prices are costing the farmer more to plant and harvest the crops. It costs the trucking companies more to transport the food to the processing plants and to the stores after processing. Low income families are not the only ones being hit with this. As a middle class person I have cut back on everything in my budget to make room for food and gas and there isn't anymore room to cut. As a food purchaser at my job, we are seeing fuel surcharges and price increases across the board. I spent the morning yesterday comparing our food costs/increases in the last month alone and it wasn't pretty.

Why do food prices have to go up just because gas prices go up? How can low-income people survive this? We still have to get to work and eat, too!