Your grocery bill isn't getting cheaper any time soon, and will likely get more expensive, according to the man in charge of Louisiana's farm policy.
"Food inflation will continue. I'm going to repeat that: food inflation will continue for the next six months to a year," Louisiana agriculture commissioner Mike Strain said to WWL's Newell Normans. He says that is because the cost of growing, harvesting, and transporting that food is going up.
"Because the cost to produce that food is being borne now by the farmers," he said.
Not only is the Russia-Ukraine war disrupting world grain production, a large portion of fertilizer used to increase crop production is made in Russia. There is also a threatened labor strike in Canada could disrupt fertilizer supplies there. Strain says about 30 percent of the fertilizer U.S. farmers use comes from Canada.