{"id":1545315,"date":"2025-07-04T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1545315"},"modified":"2025-07-04T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T22:50:00","slug":"the-falling-price-of-a-july-4th-cookout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/the-falling-price-of-a-july-4th-cookout\/1545315\/","title":{"rendered":"The (Falling) Price Of A July 4th Cookout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">The (Falling) Price Of A July 4th Cookout<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><strong>This Independence Day, shoppers can expect to pay an average of $70.92 for a cookout for 10 people<\/strong>, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fb.org\/news-release\/cost-of-summer-cookout-nearly-unchanged-from-2024\">American Farm Bureau Federation\u2019s (AFBF) annual Fourth of July market basket survey<\/a>. This marks <strong>a 30 cent decline<\/strong> from last year, although it remains the second most expensive year since the survey began back in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/30325\/average-cost-of-a-july-4-cookout-for-10-people-in-2023\/\">Statista&#8217;s Anna Fleck<\/a> shows in the following chart just how much different ingredients for a typical\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/3216\/national-holidays-in-the-us\/\">Fourth of July<\/a>\u00a0menu will set people back this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/30325\/average-cost-of-a-july-4-cookout-for-10-people-in-2023\/\" title=\"Infographic: The Price of a July 4 Cookout | Statista\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You will find more infographics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chartoftheday\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to AFBF analysts, while there have been price drops in the cost of items such as pork chops (-8.8 percent), chips (-2.1 percent) and hamburger buns (-2.6 percent), there have also been increases in the cost of beef (+4.4 percent), potato salad (+6.6 percent) and canned pork and beans (+8.2 percent).<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cInflation and lower availability of some food items continue to keep prices stubbornly high for America\u2019s families,\u201d said AFBF Associate Economist Samantha Ayoub. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cHigh prices don\u2019t mean more money for farmers, however. Farmers are price takers, not price makers. Their share of the food retail dollar is just 15 percent. The cost of running their farm is up, from labor and transportation, to taxes.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Among the factors influencing the increases are the fact fewer cattle are available for processing, while steel and aluminium tariffs have led to increased prices on canned goods.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/29177\/food-price-inflation-in-the-united-states\/\">Egg prices<\/a>\u00a0remain elevated, however have come down from their peaks earlier this year as egg-laying chicken populations are starting to recover from avian influenza. Meanwhile, wheat prices are lower than they were several years ago, contributing to the slightly lower cost of hamburger buns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Fri, 07\/04\/2025 &#8211; 14:50<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/personal-finance\/falling-price-july-4th-cookout\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/personal-finance\/falling-price-july-4th-cookout<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The (Falling) Price Of A July 4th Cookout This Independence Day, shoppers can expect to pay an average of $70.92 for a cookout for 10&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1545316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1545316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}