Things keep getting cheaper in the grocery store. The Wisconsin Farm Bureau says the total price of the 20 basic food items in their Market Basket Survey was $53.40 in the second quarter of 2009. That is $2.45 less than in the first quarter and the third quarterly decrease in a row. In the last nine months, the price has fallen 9 percent.
No big surprise there were declines in the dairy case reflecting the plunge in farm milk prices. Farm Bureau says a gallon of whole milk averaged $2.59 in the April through June quarter down 31 cents from the first quarter. Butter was 17 cents a pound cheaper but cheddar cheese was a penny higher. A pound of sirloin tip roast was down 66 cents to $3.36, ground sirloin was 12 cents cheaper, bacon declined 26 cents per pound, pork chops were only 2 cents lower and ham was a nickel higher. A dozen eggs down 17 cents to $1.14 and a pound of red delicious apples were 11% cheaper at $1.27.
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Nancy Pelosi, Democrat speaker of the house says; “This proves my point, we don’t need farmers, we can get our food cheap enough from the grocery stores”….When asked about the farm bill, she paused only for a moment and said; “I can’t answer that, I don’t know how much we are charging those farmers yet”…When asked if she had ever been to a farm she replied; “AFARM, hmm, I think we flew over it on our trip to Saudi Arabia”….Meanwhile Sen. Harkin has just finished reading a book, How Stalin Nationalized The Farms. He and Obama are using it as a guide for their next surprise on the American farmers….that’s all folks!