Bird flu a factor as poultry prices surge by 15 percent

Grocery shoppers will pay an average of 15 percent more for chicken, turkey and other poultry meat this year with bird flu as a factor, said the Agriculture Department on Monday. Its monthly Food Price Outlook report pegged grocery price inflation at 10.5 percent, the highest since 1979, but forecast that it will fall to… » Read More

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