Grocery shoppers who have noticed the price of ground beef and steak climbing faster than everything else in the cart are not imagining it. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service now forecasts beef and veal prices rising 9.8 percent for all of 2026, the steepest projected increase among the 15 major grocery categories…

Long before a loaf of bread or a box of cereal gets a new price tag, the wheat that goes into it gets one first. USDA’s Economic Research Service reported this week that the price farmers are paid for wheat jumped 9.3 percent in a single month, from June to July 2026, and now sits…

Every month, USDA’s Economic Research Service updates its outlook for how much grocery prices will rise over the full year, based on the newest inflation data available. The August update, posted August 25, lowered that outlook: food-at-home prices, the government’s term for what people spend at grocery stores and supermarkets, are now forecast to rise…

It sounds like a contradiction. A jar of cheese dip, a stick of butter, or a bag of beef jerky can no longer help a grocery store qualify to accept SNAP benefits, yet a SNAP shopper can still walk up to the register and buy any of them with an EBT card. That is not…

For a small grocery or convenience store that accepts SNAP, missing a paperwork deadline is rarely fatal. A new federal stocking rule set to take full effect this fall changes that calculus for one specific requirement: what a store actually has on its shelves. Retailers that cannot show enough variety in a handful of food…

Ground beef has been one of the more visible price increases at U.S. grocery stores this year, and the federal government just made a second attempt this year to address it through trade policy rather than direct payments. A presidential proclamation signed August 26 temporarily expands how much beef can enter the country without paying…

Walmart’s most recent quarterly earnings release places two numbers side by side. The retailer says it received nearly $2.9 billion in tariff refunds during its second fiscal quarter of 2027, the three months ending in early August, and that its U.S. stores delivered more than 11,000 price rollbacks over that same stretch. Walmart presents the…

Grocery shoppers using SNAP benefits in South Carolina and North Dakota are about to see fewer items ring up as eligible purchases. Both states received federal waivers letting them remove certain products from the program’s approved food list, and the clock has nearly run out on the old rules. The changes take effect one day…

Beef and veal cost 9.4 percent more in July 2026, the most recent month with published federal price data, than they did a year earlier, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The department’s Economic Research Service now forecasts beef and veal prices will finish all of 2026 up 9.8 percent, a projection tied directly…

The average price of diesel fuel in the United States hit $5.6046 a gallon this week, according to AAA’s daily national survey, up from $3.7072 a gallon a year ago — a gap of about $1.90. Almost nobody drives a diesel-powered car to the grocery store, so that number rarely shows up on a household’s…