Rising food prices impact school lunch costs
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) - Rising food prices are having an effect on the cost of school lunches.
Most school districts in Wisconsin will review their budgets this summer, but the La Crosse, Viroqua, Tomah and Sparta School Districts say lunch program prices will likely be raised.
Bangor School District administrator Roger Foegen says families are feeling the financial pinch all over, but schools have no choice other than to raise prices.
It costs more for food and for transporting the meals to the schools.
Foegen says his district already subsidizes the lunch program that runs in the red.
The La Crosse School District expects to increase the cost of a meal by 5 to 10 cents.
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Apr 25, 2008 at 4:08 p.m.
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It's pretty disturbing, but a number of experts believe we may be on the verge of a food crisis in the FIRST world. There is only a 27 day supply of wheat flour in the US, where normally the ag industry wants about 90 days', and it's likely that we will run out of rye flour later this summer.
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idU...
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The US will not experience any supply disruption, because unlike India and other countries, we'll be able to afford the higher prices to import from elsewhere. But that means even less available, and even higher global food prices.
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Batten down the hatches, a storm's a'comin'.
Apr 25, 2008 at 1:42 p.m.
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good point whybesad. i wouldnt be thekid3477 if i didnt mention the ever versatile hemp plant. grow your food THEN grow your fuel....www.hemp4fuel.com
Apr 25, 2008 at 10:34 a.m.
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The price we pay for mandating ethanol which is made from food. When the mandate went into effect in 2005 corn was $2.00 a bushel. Today it's trading at $6.00 a bushel. More farmers want to grow corn because of the rate of return they are getting thus putting a strain on other crops. We don't have to rely on foreign oil all we need to do is drill for our own oil (ANWAR).
Apr 25, 2008 at 9:54 a.m.
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The United Nations food program can only buy 40% of the food they used to be able to buy last June with the same amount of money. Countries are starting to impose export bans, so they can feed their own. In Kenya, they're only planting 1/3 the crops they did last year, because of soaring fertilizer costs. There will be much death in the future I predict.
Apr 25, 2008 at 9:02 a.m.
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With the highest rate of obesity on the planet, maybe American kids need more sports and less to eat. Just kidding.....sort of.
Apr 25, 2008 at 8:36 a.m.
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I have a idea. Why not cut some of the sport programs and take that money to keep lunch prices down. Every kid needs to eat, but they all don't play sports. Right?
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