Wheat prices at the farm gate have jumped sharply this summer, and the reason is a shrinking harvest. USDA’s Economic Research Service says farm-level wheat prices climbed more than 9 percent in a single month and are now running roughly a quarter above where they stood a year ago. Despite that spike, the agency’s own…

Farm-level vegetable prices just posted their sharpest one-month drop of the year, and USDA’s own numbers suggest the produce aisle tends to start feeling that kind of move within a month or two. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, prices paid to farms for fresh vegetables fell 29.4 percent from June…

California’s price for on-highway diesel fuel crossed $7.20 a gallon last week, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s weekly survey, the highest of any state in the country and more than a dollar sixty above the national average. Most households don’t buy diesel directly, but the fuel that moves trucks, freight and delivery vehicles…

Drivers on the West Coast are paying close to a dollar sixty more per gallon than drivers on the Gulf Coast, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s latest weekly survey. The gap isn’t a fluke of one bad week; it’s the widest split of any two regions EIA tracks, and it actually grew last…

Gasoline prices moved in sharply different directions across the country last week, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s weekly survey of retail stations. While the national average barely budged, drivers in Colorado, Ohio and a couple of other states saw some of the steepest single-week declines the agency logged all year. For households in…