date:Feb 06, 2013
The cost of salad staples including lettuce probably will rise after frigid weather last month hurt winter vegetable crops in California and Arizona, the biggest U.S. growers.
The CHART OF THE DAY shows prices soared when temperatures plunged in the neighboring counties of Imperial, California, and Yuma, Arizona, located on the Mexican border. In 2011, when El Centro, California, had freezing weather on Jan. 1 and Feb. 3, iceberg lettuce jumped 36 percent to $1.277 a pound by March 31 from the