Fruit, vegetable prices up after rain floods crops
date:Aug 12, 2013
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At Kenner's stand, watermelons were selling for $4 to $8, peaches for $12 a peck and tomatoes $20 a case.

Produce seller Frank Bibbs, who buys fruit at the South Carolina State Farmers Market in West Columbia, S.C., to bring to his Augusta stand, said the prices went up on everything he sells compared to last year. The cost of corn was $16 a box compared to $10 to $12 last summer, and a box of apples was up $5 to $35.

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