date:Jul 28, 2014
he decline indomestic supplies.
Food inflation, which includes items bought in grocery stores and inrestaurants, is seen at 2.5 percent to 3.5 percent this year and then subsidingto 2 percent to 3 percent in 2015, the USDA said in its first forecast for thenew year. Since 1990, grocery store prices have risen by an average of 2.8percent per year.
The agency noted a recent jump in vegetable prices but said it was too soonto tie the move to the severe drought in California, the largest U.S. gr