潜水简介：
- The consumer price index for food-at-home increased 1.4% in the month of February, and rose 8.6% over the past 12 months — the largest 12-month increase since the period ending April 1981, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’Consumer Price Index上周发布。
- 水果和蔬菜在家庭领域的主要食物中每月增长最大，增长了2.3％，这是自2010年3月以来的最大增长。它的驱动为6.8％的柑橘类水果价格，包括橙子和橘子。
- Prices for citrus fruits have increased 16.2% over the past year, according to BLS data, due to cold weather and disease harshly compounding an already constrained supply for the oranges, even as demand has been growing.
Dive Insight:
February saw the highest monthly gains in food prices since April 2020, the second month of the pandemic,根据CNBC。烘焙食品的价格每月上涨1.3％，面粉和准备好的混合量为1.1％小麦价格更高，每个BLS数据。Dairy and related products rose 1.9%, its largest monthly increase since April 2011, driven by higher milk prices.Meat prices also continued to rise, with poultry up 1.7% in February, and ham prices increasing 3%.
柑橘价格跳升之际,一个艰难的growing season for farmers in states including Florida, California and Texas. The USDA noted in its柑橘报告in January that the production forecast for the crop was significantly lower than previous years.
该报告预测天气和柑橘绿色疾病将使这是一个特别艰难的季节。Freezing temperatures in Florida and Texas伤害了本赛季的橙色作物。无法治愈的柑橘绿色遍布佛罗里达和德克萨斯州根据《华尔街日报》。该疾病降低了农民的产量影响水果的质量，使其对消费者的吸引力降低。它also使水果生长较小, have higher acidity as well as lower sugar content。
Meanwhile, the ongoing supply chain crisis has further complicated the difficult task of growing and selling the fruit for farmers. Emily Ayala, an owner of Friend's Ranches farm in Ojai, California,told CNBC她所在地区的农民倾倒了大约10％的健康橘子供应，因为没有可用的劳动力或货物来运输它，因此无法投放市场。
柑橘价格较高的价格已降低到消费产品。根据美国农业部数据，橙汁价格在2021年增长了13.8％由华盛顿邮报引用。由于消费者对其通常含糖含量的较高的担忧，果汁的销售量已经下降了多年，但橙汁看到流行的复兴在大流行开始时。该饮料仍然与许多人的免疫健康有关，因为它的饮料high vitamin C content。消费者继续重视包含功能福利经过两年的大流行，因此对橙汁的需求仍然很高。根据a report from Tridge2021年7月，直到2025年，橙汁的销量预计将以2.35％的复合年增长率增长。
