Food Prices

Food Prices

Food prices are hitting new highs. A look at how energy costs, federal subsidies, and a growing middle class worldwide are reducing end of year grain inventories and driving up grocery bills.

Food prices are hitting new highs. A look at how energy costs, federal subsidies, and a growing middle class worldwide are reducing end of year grain inventories and driving up grocery bills.

Guests

Bruce Babcock

professor of economics and the director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University.

Dan Morgan

special correspondent, Washington Post and
fellow, German Marshal Fund of the United States

Lauren Etter

reporter, Wall Street Journal

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