Several factors behind the rising price of coffee
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And it isn't just coffee. A great many basic foodstuffs, from wheat and other cereal grains to salt, spices, tea, boxed foods, and choice meats, are skyrocketing in price because of factors such as the rapidly increasing price at the pump of diesel fuel for the trucks that transport ready-for-market foods to national outlets, the increasing costs of pesticides, the decline in numbers of efficient pollinators for crops that depend on them (such crops are generally produced locally, but problems with yield are forcing prices upward), food recalls due to findings of disease bacteria in many products, and so on. When you're at the store, if they've got a good sale going on nonperishables such as boxed and canned goods, buy twice what you intended of those products, and put the extra by for a rainy day. Start growing your own food if you can. And figure out what you have that would be useful as barter and you don't truly need -- one of these days, it might be that the only way you can acquire enough food for yourself and your family is to use barter to get it from neighbors.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/120327539.html
And it isn't just coffee. A great many basic foodstuffs, from wheat and other cereal grains to salt, spices, tea, boxed foods, and choice meats, are skyrocketing in price because of factors such as the rapidly increasing price at the pump of diesel fuel for the trucks that transport ready-for-market foods to national outlets, the increasing costs of pesticides, the decline in numbers of efficient pollinators for crops that depend on them (such crops are generally produced locally, but problems with yield are forcing prices upward), food recalls due to findings of disease bacteria in many products, and so on. When you're at the store, if they've got a good sale going on nonperishables such as boxed and canned goods, buy twice what you intended of those products, and put the extra by for a rainy day. Start growing your own food if you can. And figure out what you have that would be useful as barter and you don't truly need -- one of these days, it might be that the only way you can acquire enough food for yourself and your family is to use barter to get it from neighbors.