Update: US lettuce prices chopped as costs for other goods remain stubbornly high

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Price for the crop dropped dramatically this summer following the cyclospora outbreak caused demand to wilt At the Republicans’ midterm convention held earlier this week, Donald Trump stated that “food prices and almost every other item are rapidly going down”. The report also notes that Fresh inflation data on Friday told a different story – but in one specific case, costs have been chopped. The price of lettuce dropped dramatically this summer following the cyclospora outbreak caused demand to wilt, with prices dropping even further in August, as reported by new data released on Friday.

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