Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about grocery prices and what's projected to happen in 2025.

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The new USDA reports are out, and the projection on food prices, given the current situation,

is that they will continue to rise.

This does not include any price increase due to Trump's tariffs.

So they're going to rise, but by how much?

Overall, the projection says that across the board,

food prices will rise 3.4% over last year. But that's pretty broad. The report gets into

specifics of different kinds of food. Let's start with eggs, since that was an incredibly

important metric during the election. Eggs are projected

to climb by 41.1%. The USDA seems pretty certain that we haven't reached the highest

egg prices we're going to see. Poultry isn't really expected to climb much at all, but there's a little

note that indicates that might change

if things with bird flu aren't brought under control. That has led to a lot of questions that

we've answered over on the other channel, but the short version is that the meat chickens and

egg layers aren't the same, and it takes longer to replace egg layers.

Beef and veal is expected to rise 3.2%.

Pork prices are predicted to increase 1.2%.

Fresh fruits are expected to go up 2.4%.

Again, not in this report, but economists will tell you that if the

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