date:Jul 28, 2014
cost pressures for most perishable items, the USDA said.
But drought conditions in California and other states could further drive upprices of fresh produce and beef, the USDA warned.
The agency forecast wholesale pork prices to jump by 10 percent to 11percent in 2014, hurt by declining supplies after a virus has killed some 7million piglets in the past year.
Wholesale beef prices are forecast to jump by 8 percent to 9 percent in2014, although rising imports are helping to offset some of t