[lbo-talk] Reality check, please

123hop at comcast.net 123hop at comcast.net
Fri Dec 21 09:25:22 PST 2007


And the price has tripled because

--the dollar is sinking --fertilizer is oil based which has doubled --???

Joanna -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Alan E. DeBakey" <a.debakey at yahoo.com>


> Nothing special folks, just this little crumb from the hinterlands out here:
> We went to the feed store yesterday - wheat a year ago was $7 for
> a 50 lb bag, then up to $9.50 recently, then $12.50 a month ago, now
> $19.50. My friend in the pig industry regularily sends me stuff about
> how the pork, chicken, beaf industries are worried as they don't think
> they will be able to pass on all their increases in costs to consumers
> who will stop buying meat if it gets too high. Alan
>
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