What you are saying doesn't make any sense. We know that farmers haven't been able to find enough workers and we know this raises prices. So how are prices coming down? Please explain this to me. Is this like Trump telling us he's going to lower drug prices 500%?
Yes, produce prices are generally expected to increase. A recent analysis suggests that fresh produce prices will rise by 5.4% due to the impact of tariffs. This is why Trump suddenly is okay with illegals so long as they only work at farms and hotels.
Overall, consumers should expect to see some increases in produce prices due to ongoing economic factors.
Grocery prices have been on the rise for most of the past five years, as supply chain bottlenecks, the war in Ukraine and excessive profit-taking here in America have put a strain on consumers' wallets. Trump campaigned heavily on the price of food in 2024, promising that if elected he would lower costs.
Instead his policies have increased prices. Now he's going to go back on his word and let illegals continue to come in in order to lower prices? So he has to break one campaign promise to fulfill another?
The all-items Consumer Price Index (CPI), a measure of economy-wide inflation, increased 0.3 percent from May 2025 to June 2025 and was up 2.7 percent from June 2024.
Food prices rose at about the same rate as overall inflation. The CPI for all food increased 0.3 percent from May 2025 to June 2025. Food prices in June 2025 were 3.0 percent higher than in June 2024.
- The food-at-home (grocery store or supermarket food purchases) CPI increased 0.2 percent from May 2025 to June 2025 and was 2.4 percent higher than in June 2024.
- The food-away-from-home (restaurant and other foodservice purchases) CPI increased 0.4 percent from May 2025 to June 2025 and was 3.8 percent higher than in June 2024.