SocraticGadfly: Get ready for more food sticker shock

January 26, 2009

Get ready for more food sticker shock

Ongoing drought in California's Central Valley and elsewhere means lettuce, almonds and melons are among produce itself set to start a price climb. Federally-ordered, environmentally-driven, cutbacks of water going south from California's Sacramento Delta, are adding to the problem, while federal reservoirs in the area are at their lowest in nearly 20 years.

And, early weather forecasts call for a dry spring.

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