Grocery Prices Up 3% As Climate, Tariffs, And Disease Fuel Food Inflation

Grocery prices rose 3% year-over-year, driven by climate disruptions, supply chain instability, and lingering impacts from Trump-era trade policies, according to Axios. Coffee prices surged 13.4% as heat and drought impacted crops in Brazil and Vietnam, while ground beef climbed 10.3% amid drought-driven feed costs and shrinking cattle herds. Egg prices jumped 27.3%, largely due to bird flu outbreaks. The USDA notes long-term declines in U.S. farming, while global price spikes underscore the growing toll of extreme weather. Extreme weather driven by climate change is already harming crops and raising global food prices, and will worsen without net-zero emissions, according to study author Maximilian Kotz.