If you buy a bottle of Canadian whisky, a wedge of Canadian cheese, or a car built in Ontario, the importer bringing it across the border has been paying an extra 50 cents on every dollar of that item’s value since August 22. That cost does not stay with the importer. It works its way…

If you’ve watched ground beef climb past $6 a pound at the checkout counter, the federal government just made a bet that flooding the market with 300,000 more metric tons of imported lean beef trimmings will pull that number back down. The first chunk of that supply, 100,000 metric tons, became available to importers on…

Restaurant meals are set to get costlier at a faster pace than groceries this year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest economic forecast. The agency’s Economic Research Service projects food-away-from-home prices rising 3.6 percent in 2026, while grocery store prices climb a slower 2.5 percent. That’s a wider split than the two categories…

Chocolate bars, bagged candy, and gum are getting measurably more expensive this year, and the increase shows no sign of leveling off before Halloween. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest grocery price forecast puts sugar and sweets on track for one of the steepest increases of any food category tracked in 2026, trailing only beef…

President Trump signed two executive orders on the cattle industry at the White House on Friday, September 4, both framed as wins for ranchers. Grocery shoppers scanning the price of ground beef might assume that kind of presidential attention to the beef supply chain comes with a number attached — a rebate, a cap, a…

A state-inspected meat plant in most of the country cannot legally ship a single package across a state line. An executive order signed September 4, 2026 directs the U.S. Department of Agriculture to widen the narrow federal programs that make an exception, so small, state-inspected processors can sell their beef, pork and poultry beyond their…

President Trump signed an executive order on September 4, 2026, giving the U.S. Department of Agriculture three months to figure out whether it can legally force grocery stores to disclose where beef comes from. The instruction sits inside a broader ranchers’ order that also touches grazing land and predator control, but for household grocery budgets,…

American shoppers reaching for ground beef, steak or a roast this year are absorbing one of the steepest single-category price increases in the supermarket. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service now forecasts that beef and veal prices will climb 9.8 percent over the course of 2026, the fastest rise among the fifteen food-at-home…

The federal government’s newest price outlook shows the vegetable aisle climbing faster than the rest of the grocery cart this year, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasting a 5.9 percent increase in retail fresh vegetable prices for 2026. Tomatoes are driving much of that increase already: retail prices for fresh tomatoes in July 2026…

President Trump signed a proclamation in late August that temporarily lets more imported beef into the United States at a lower tariff rate, and the White House says the point is a 25 percent price cut on that beef. But read the actual text of the order, and there is no line that forces an…