1783 CONNECT 294 TWEET 23 LINKEDIN 39 COMMENT EMAIL MORE. Prices are rising for a range of food staples, from meat and pork to fruits and vegetables, squeezing consumers still struggling with modest wage gains. Food prices rose 0.4% in February, the most since September 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday. Beef and veal shoppers were socked with some of the biggest increases, as prices jumped 4% from January.
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Prices are rising for a range of food staples, from meat and pork to fruits and vegetables. Food prices rose 0.4% in February, the most since September 2011.
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There's an important caveat here, though. The Bureau of Labor Statistics hasn't released data on the retail price of bacon for any month past June -- before the full brunt of PED's impact on prices could work its way through the supply chain.
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Droughts, unusually cold winter weather, rising exports and a virus outbreak in the hog population are among the causes of food inflation, which is expected to accelerate in 2014. The Agriculture Department expects grocery store prices to increase as much as 3.5% in 2014, up from 0.9% last year.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics pegged the price of a pound of bacon in urban supermarkets at $4.92 this past June -- up 14 percent from June 2012 and another all-time high. Good growing conditions for corn have kept prices of hog feed down, so there's no reason to cry  aporkalypse  quite yet.
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We now spend a much bigger share of our grocery money on processed foods, which includes things like frozen dinners, canned soups and snacks. We spend much less on meat, largely because meat is much cheaper than it was 30 years ago.
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See related posts from this series, including What America Buys and What America Does For Work. We spend less of our money on groceries than we did 30 years ago. The way we spend our grocery money has also changed.
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As a result, pork price futures have skyrocketed to historic levels, with hundredweights of pork going for about $105 in recent trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. USDA data show that the same amount of pork went for $78 in March, before the virus hit.
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You may soon have to cough up a lot more bacon if you want to buy bacon. A mysterious virus has been killing great numbers of piglets since it was first discovered in the U.S. herd in April, cutting into the supply of pork and pushing prices way up.
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bureau of labor statistics pork price
The price of pork at the Bureau of Labor Statistics is $4.92. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the price for pork is $4.92.