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Here's Which Grocery Items Had Price Increases This Year
Supply shocks including bird flu and New World Screwworms, plus tariffs, drove a 2.9% rise in U.S. grocery prices, with ground beef up 11.5%, USDA data shows.
- Updated Dec 29, 2025: reporters in Washington analyzed CPI data and found overall food prices in the United States up 2.9% from July last year.
- Amid this year, supply shocks such as bird flu and weather reduced supply, with eggs reaching $6.23 per dozen and USDA reporting more than 30 million birds culled.
- Specific grocery items such as beef and coffee showed notable increases, with ground beef rising to $8.04 per pound in July and the average coffee per‑pound price climbing from $7.02 in January to $7.54 in April.
- Despite some price declines, households saw mixed impacts with tomatoes down 5.2%, fats and oils down 2.3%, frozen vegetables down 2.2%, and the USDA estimates families lose about $1.30 per day to food waste.
- Trade and policy moves followed, including tariff changes: Brazil faced a 40% tariff on coffee exports that the Trump administration removed in November, and Brooke L. Rollins, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, closed livestock trade through Mexico's southern ports.
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