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AFBF: July 4th cookouts remain affordable
Jul 3, 2019, 15:03 PM
by
Ann Gregson
A cookout
for July 4th remains affordable according to the latest American
Farm Bureau marketbasket survey.
John Newton,
AFBF’s chief economist, says the informal survey shows the cost of food items for
a summer cookout for 10 people was nearly $53.
He tells Brownfield the price is comparable to the prices seen in the past five years.
“That’s because commodity prices have been relatively stable,” he says. “We have several record crops and livestock production.
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