Blaine Tornow: Grocery Bills Rising: Why?

WAUSAU -- Walk through any aisle in the grocery store and you'll see it: prices are up. Eggs have jumped almost a dollar.
But is it all due to fuel costs?

Farmers say it's not just gas prices that are increasing the cost of production.

They're seeing a huge rise in the cost of corn.

That's because the corn that normally would be used as food for the animals, is going instead to ethanol production - which has jumped in the last 6 months.

That's creating a shortage in corn.

Blaine Tornow, owner of Moonshadow Farm, says, "If the price of corn shoots up, which it has, there are other grains that are following suit. So they're using other grains, whatever they can get their hands on."

Blaine says the higher prices don't just apply to eggs.

It's any food that deals with grain: like meat or dairy products.

While the cost of corn is going up, there's no denying the cost of fuel is ALSO increasing.

That just adds to the rising cost of production.

Ag agents say this probably won't be felt by farmers, because they'll pass that cost on to the consumers.
credit: waow

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