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Missouri food prices up

Missouri shoppers paid more for food in the first quarter of 2014 than during the same period last year. Sixteen food items surveyed by the Missouri Farm Bureau came to a little more than $49.00, an increase of 35 cents over the first quarter of 2013.

Seven items increased in price while nine cost slightly less. Meat and dairy prices are higher.

Missouri’s groceries are under the national average. The same sixteen items average about $53.25 nationally, more than $4 over what they are in Missouri.

The Missouri Farm Bureau says prices are higher because of weather, high demand and tight protein supplies.