Fruit, vegetable prices up after rain floods crops
date:Aug 12, 2013
his summer, Judge has had a tough time finding squash, okra, butter beans and string beans to stock her stand. On Friday, she had a few bags of butter beans and peas for sale, but at a price of $5 per bag compared to last summer's $4 price tag.

Fruits and vegetables, they are very expensive this year, I guess because we had a lot of rain and things didn't produce like they should, Judge said.

Like most of Georgia, Augusta received rainfall amounts far exceeding normal. In June, Augusta Regiona
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