2009 Food Prices

Randall Weiseman General

Well it’s a new year, and some consumers are glad to leave 2008 behind them with the record gas prices, unfortunate recession and high food bills. We paid about 6 percent more in 2008 than in 2007 to keep food on the table and Agriculture Department Food Price Economist Ephriam Leibtag tells us if we are going to break our budget this year.