get this flour?

Ohhhh prices of baked good. Don't get me started.

Prices in September

for a 30lb bucket of liquid eggs was $.28, I now pay $.56

for Flour and I use 1000lbs a week went from $.23 to $.46 this last week. It is still going to increase by another $.10 according to my purveyor

for oil its up $.17 a lb

Walnuts went from $1.50lb in October, to  $5.00lb in January, Yesterday I paid $7.95.

This is all due to the commidity market and the new fuel industry, as well as selling much of the product at low ball prices over seas.

Thanks for the rant

Carlton Brooks CEPC, CCE Mesa, Arizona

Ben e. kieth foods is the source for this flour. depending on where you live, you may or may not have access to this company. they are located in texas, oklahoma, new mexico, miss., la, ark & kansas. you could inquire @ 405.413.9375 or visit benekeith.com

I think it depends on what your distributor's circumstances are.  In some places the additional costs have hit already, and in other places not.  But, rest assured, it's all going up.  If for no other reason than that fuel prices have gone up and everything - EVERYTHING - is costing more to transport.

Rosalie

I'm going to do some experimenting with Gold Medal bread flour (brown bag).  Down here it's about half the price of K.A. flour and from the reports I've read it performs about the same.  A lot of the price of wheat has to do with supply and demand.  Many wheat farmers are now planting corn for ethenol.  Ethenol costs about much to produce as it sells for... Duhhh.  Go figure.  I think some folks in the upper echelons of the Dept. of Agriculture have been smoking some bad switch grass :-)  Anyway, where's Marie Antoinette when we really need her?

Howard - St. Augustine, FL

KA increased only 40+%?

The flour I buy (no-name unbleached allpurpose in 10kg bags) has recently doubled in price, going from just under Cdn$6 to just under Cdn$12. (That's 100% increase, yes?) I haven't even looked at the prices for name brand flour.... 

I just looked at the KA site and see that their unbleached allpurpose is roughly the same price as the flour I'm buying but that's BEFORE paying shipping and exchange rate. (I can't find the shipping charges on the KA site; I see that they offer free shipping on orders of over $100 but I'm not about to buy that much flour at one time.)

I too am hoping the farmers will make the switch back to wheat. The sooner the better.

Elizabeth, in Canada 

Isn't it funny that with much of the world's wheat production happening in our own backyard, we pay a premium for flour. Although the states are seeing an increase in price, we always seem to pay far more here in Canada. I would take caution ordering from the states though as you may find yourself with a bill for duty and gst when it arrives, plus the gov"t service charges for the process of billing you! This will be on top of the S&H that the company charges and likely they will not even know about it. This has been my experience lately. i paid an extra $20 for a $35 book ordered from NY on top of S&H, courtesy of the Canadian Gov't!

All the best,

B.

Food Prices This article gives some explanation.

Last time I ordered from KA (I live in Ottawa), they charged an extra $15.00 above their shipping rates for shipping to Canada.  Worked well - I ordered lots of stuff I can't find here, plus some flour.  The flour was great, but not necessarily worth going to the hassle to order over what I can get in my local health food store.  When the box arrived, several of the bags were broken, and they just sent new bags of flour (and paid for shipping) after my call.  One point - if you live close to the border, most supermarkets in the US carry KA flour in their everyday stock.  Not the speciality flours, but bread and all-purpose for sure.  And just last week I was in Seattle, and they had white whole-wheat at a whole foods.

Janice

New information on the rising cost of food!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24127314

I'll be the first to admit that I've complained about the rising price of flour.  It does pinch a bit, but I'm still buying it.  But when I compare our predicament here in the wealthy US to that of poorer countries, I feel ashamed that I've complained.   Here there is still food to buy, and there are options for the folks who can't afford to buy groceries.  I can't imagine what it must be like to not have the option of buying food because there's none to buy, or because the prices are now out of my reach.  I think (and I'm saying this as someone who is trying to make a living in the food profession) that we need to keep it all in perspective, and remember our fellow human beings who even now are enduring empty bellies. 

SOL

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/blog/2008/08/01/king-arthur-flour-lowers-the-price-grocery-retailers-pay-for-our-flours/

 I apologize if this has already been noted.  I was out here doing a bit of fun and read this news. 

Also in Canada, but the store-brand organic wheat flour that I use at home has only gone up $1 per bag in the past few weeks, though I am pretty sure several years ago I only paid $2.99 or $3.99 for it and for the past year or so it's been around $5 a bag (and just within the last month or so gone up to $6.49!).  I never buy non-organic, so Id've never noticed that it doubled in price, I wonder if it has happened in Ontario, too? Is this only no name/store brands or have the others (Five Roses, etc.) gone up too?  And I wonder why non-organic flours are increasing in price more rapidly than organic...? I've noticed that rice and rice flour prices are getting very high, too.  25 kg bag of brown rice flour from the wholesale company is over $60!