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You’re About to Pay a Lot More for Peanut Butter

Peanut Butter Prices RisingIf you like peanut butter and make a it a pantry staple, get ready — you’re about to pay, in some cases, 40 percent more for it.

A bad peanut harvest, as well as farmers getting paid more to grow other crops, has limited the supply and forced many manufactures to raise the prices on the creamy, or chunky, substance. CNNMoney.com explains what price increases you can expect to see:

Kraft (KFT, Fortune 500) will raise prices for its Planters brand peanut butter by 40% starting Monday, while ConAgra (CAG, Fortune 500) has instituted increases of more than 20% for its Peter Pan brand that went into effect this month.

J.M. Smucker (SJM, Fortune 500), which makes Jif, will introduce price hikes of around 30% starting Tuesday.

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Prices for a ton of runner peanuts, commonly used to make peanut butter, hit nearly $1,200 this month, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That’s up from just $450 per ton a year ago. Overall, the USDA projects that American peanut production will hit 3.6 billion pounds this year, down 13% from last year.

The price increase is likely to hit many American households. That’s because, as the Washington Post reports, “peanut butter is in 90 percent of American houses” and most American kids “will eat an average of 1,500 peanut butter sandwiches by the time they graduate from high school.”

So what’s the culprit? CNNMoney.com blames “intense heat and drought that hit the southern U.S. this year, as well as to high prices for other crops that led farmers to focus their efforts elsewhere.”

Chris Brand, a spokesman for Giant food stores, told CNNMoney the “outlook does not look good until next year’s crop is harvested and produced.”

Comments (154)

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  • davamdean
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:19am

    Well this should make peanut butter the same price as Almond butter so make the switch. Almond butter is much better for you.

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    • smokeysmoke
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:35am

      STOP THE GREEN EATHANOL PROGRAM… this may seem like two different things… BUT WHEN YOU BURN ONE SOURCE OF FOOD.. ANIMAL FEED. , but instead we are putting 1/3 OF OUR CORN SUPPLY into our car engines….. IF WE WANT TO DROP THE PRICE OF FOOD STOP BURNING IT… what will happen is the price of corn, and soy will drop… and those cromodidties have some cross uses, based on the oils, being animal feeds, and food… by lowering the price of other foods… it will aliveiate demand on other foods…. STOP BURNING OUR FOOD!!!

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    • smokeysmoke
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:39am

      ITS OK ON SURPLUS YEARS>.. BUT THEN THE FIRST YEAR YOU HAVE A DROUGHT… YOU HAVE THE FEDS GIVING CASH TO EATHANOL PRODUCERS TO BUY CORN AND BURN IT…. IF THERE IS A DROUGHT… YOU ARE STILL BURNING UP OUR SUPPLYS EVEN IF THEY ARE TIGHT… THE END RESULT… YOU ARE PAYING EXTRIEMLY HIGH PRICES FOR YOUR CORN… JUST TO CONVERT IT TO EATHANOL AND BURN IT… all the while jacking up the price of our food…. GO GREEN POLICY…. GO PROGRESSIVES… YOU KNOW HOW TO MAKE THINGS WORSE… ALL THE WHILE CLAIME TO BE ON THE SIDE OF GOOD

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    • Bloody Sam
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 11:05am

      I don’t eat the stuff but have copious amounts stashed away in my TEOTWAWKI storage section.
      Right next to the extra ammo.

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    • Go Glenn
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 12:09pm

      This is what happens when the free market is tweaked by Government intervention.
      Stop subsidizing ethanol and for that matter stop subsidizing EVERYTHING.

      The good that comes from intervention is far outweighed by the unforseen, unintended consequences.

      Stop meddling!!!!!!

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    • Spec_B_GT
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 1:13pm

      the corn ethanol green movement is a joke, they need to spend there time growing other crops that are more effective while not taking away from food producing crops, we can feed our selves or our farm animals with ethanol.

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    • chingachgook
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 1:34pm

      you are correct we are burning a food source and it will have an impact on the economy. Use petro products for what they are good for and eat corn.

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    • c0mm0nsense
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 1:38pm

      I really dont care much for chunky.

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 2:50pm

      Like both peanut and almond butter and would hate to see the price go up. As for corn for ethanol, it should be stopped completely. Ethanol is a inferior fuel and it take land away from food production and drives up prices.

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    • Jwmajic
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 4:47pm

      One point not being made about ethanol is how it erodes fuel lines and rots the rubber parts in the fuel system damaging all but the newest cars thats why Obozo wants to bump the gas up to 15% ethanol. They know its driving up cost and is no more efficient than petrol fuels, its all about getting older cars off the road thats.. why they are doing it. If you love your classic car change over to stainless steel fuel lines before it gets ruined.

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    • Jwmajic
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 4:56pm

      This site needs an edit button.

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    • the_zazzy
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 5:00pm

      See Jimmy Carter is good for something…please come back Jimmy and farm peanuts for us!!! Nobody can do it like you can, Jiffy, I mean Jimmy!

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    • bmwrider
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 5:00pm

      Will this be like those $60 dollar hershey bars that Glenn and the National Inflation Association (pump and dump penny stock scam group) warned us about in 2010?

      Glenn Beck is a fool.

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    • Plain Scary
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 5:46pm

      you probably grow almonds

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    • patriot308
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 6:15pm

      Almond butter is OK but I like cashew butter more. And to Smoke something…. I don’t read any part of a posting that is in capitals.

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    • kchercmech
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 6:23pm

      That may be the case, but the taste of almonds do not even compare to delicious P Nut butter.

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    • Dakota Kid
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 6:52pm

      To holysmoke: 70% of the calories go to alcohol production the starch the part that are always called empty calories. The remaining fiber proteins and fats stay with what is called “distillers grains” these are fed to livestock as feed. If you want to you can also eat these distillers grains which, according to the way people talk, has removed all the “empty calories” not the “nutrition” . What Ethanol production is moves the “empty calories” from the fat on our bellies to the gas tanks. The “nutritional” part of the corn remains and is consumed by people and animals.

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    • corbecket
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 7:06pm

      “IF WE WANT TO DROP THE PRICE OF FOOD STOP BURNING IT… what will happen is the price of corn, and soy will drop….”

      NOOOO!!! You are a commie pinko Smokeysmoke! And yes I do grow corn and soybeans (and a few other things besides).

      If you don’t allow food prices to increase, how do you allow the producers to recoup their cost of production? It‘s not like the increased cost of energy doesn’t apply to farmers just because they produce food. I’m not terribly worried about a boycott affecting demand, since boycotts don’t work anyway. I’m perfectly willing to to let demand and supply set prices, but a real free market in agricultural commodities has not existed in this country during my lifetime, and I am OLD.

      The government has subsidized the food production industry in this country for plenty of reasons, most of which have to do with providing cheap (below free market prices) food for the masses. Controlling the supply of ag products on the international market has a great deal to do with their madness as well.

      The US consumer has no clue about what the cost of food would be in a real free market due to government intervention, so preaching supply and demand has very little meaning with regard to food. I’m only kidding about you being a pinko, and you’re no more a communist, with regard to food, than any of the politicos that set US ag policy, and the consumers that have benefitted from it over their entire lifetimes.

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    • dirigo
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 7:32pm

      We’ve stocked a bit so far, plus lots of other items, protection included:D … And I made 8 batches (6 pints ea) of homemade strawberry jam last summer:) Wayyyyy better that smuckers! yum yum

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    • dirigo
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 7:40pm

      Socialist Takeover: By using corn as fuel and the land to grow it, is just an easy way for them to turn us more into a socialist country.. They do it as quitely as possible by sneaking it in. Doing what they do reduces our food growth and it reduces our land availability for the food. It’s one more step in the control that has been completed! In a socialist country the government controls EVERYTHING! And they OWN EVERYTHING. And they force you to only be able to buy what is available and controlled by them.. It’s happening everyday all across the country! By limiting our choices they are taking more freedom!

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    • smokeysmoke
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 11:35am

      @corbecket
      Just listen to what your saying….. you idiot… you call me a commie, CAUSE I WANT A FREE MARKET… YOUR SAYING…. THE ONLY WAY THE FARMERS CAN MAKE IT IS IF THE FEDS JACK UP THE PRICE OF YOUR PRODUCE ARTIFICIALLY…. BY BURNING OUR FOOD WE MAKE IT SO THAT FARMERS CAN MAKE IT…. ITS SO DUMB… SOY IS AT 12.50$ corn is 6.5$ a BUSHEL….. THIS IS ABOUT TWICE AS EXPENSIVE AS THESE COMODDITIES SHOULD BE…. SO YES… BY ALIEVATING DEMAND ON SOME OF THESE COMODITIES WE WILL SEE THE PRICES DROP IN ALL FOOD…. dont worry…. you will learn to survive with out the government help, and the goods will find a market trading value, and you WILL LEARN TO USE FUTURES MARKETS TO HEDGE YOUR PRODUCTS, and protect your livelyhood….
      AND EATHANOL DESTROYS THE COMMODITY WHEN TO CONVERT IT… YOU DONT GET TO KEEP PARTS AND USE PARTS… THIS IS WHY WE HAVE TRIED TO CHANGE TO SWITCHGRASS AND OTHER GREEN SOURCES…. BUT FOR NOW WE BURN 1/3 OF OUR CORN…. YOU DO UNDERSTAND THE GREEN SUBSIDIES DONT GO TO THE CONSUMER… AND THEY ARE NOT DROPPING THE PRICE OF FOOD… WE ARE GIVING MONEY TO EATHANOL PRODUCERS, TO BUY CORN WITH…. so when corn is at 6.5$ we are paying doubble the cost to buy corn from FARMERS… JUST TO BURN IT… I KNOW THIS HELPS YOU EXPAND… BUT IT IS A FAIL PRACTICE WHEN PEOPLE ARE STARVING ALL OVER THE WORLD AND THE PRICE OF FOOD IS TOO HIGH.. WE NEED TO GO BACK TO THE FREE MARKET>….. WOULD LOWERING YOUR TAXES HELP YOU, IN LOU OF THE GOVT BUYING COR

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    • Paradox777
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 11:17pm

      Yep. Just paid $6.99 for a 28 oz. jar of peanut butter. OUCH!

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  • cloudsofwar
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:18am

    next you will tell me that they are making peanut butter from soy. i and my grandsons like JIFF. 1200 dollars a ton? up from 450 a year ago? jimmy carter is smiling. is jimmy still growing peanuts?

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    • Moosedrool
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 1:09pm

      Yep, if you buy the kind you do not have to mix the oils back in, you get hydrogenated soybean oil in you PB. You also get sugar in most brands. Read the labels.

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  • herkdriver234
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:18am

    So the culprit was: “intense heat and drought that hit the southern U.S. this year, as well as to high prices for other crops that led farmers to focus their efforts elsewhere.”

    And the result is: “Prices for a ton of runner peanuts, commonly used to make peanut butter, hit nearly $1,200 this month, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That’s up from just $450 per ton a year ago. Overall, the USDA projects that American peanut production will hit 3.6 billion pounds this year, down 13% from last year”

    Bad weather causes a 13% drop in the peanut harvest year over year but a 37.5% rise in the cost of peanuts year over year??????

    We are not being told the true story here. Someone is making a lot of money.

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    • Skrewedretiree
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:37am

      Yes, and I bet it’s Southern Democraps. The farmers are diverting to “other crops”. I wonder how much is corn, so the price of feed will come down since Obummer has 20% or more of the current crop going into ethanol since he won’t let us do anything about the high cost of fuel and heating oil. Someone IS getting rich; just follow the money. How’s that Hope and Change thing working out for ya?

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    • SDmom
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:46am

      It’s more about the ending stock amount than the 13% drop from last year. And the USDA likes to guess what the harvest will be and are often “surprised” when their projections are too high. I do not follow the peanut markets, but that ismy experience in other commodities.

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    • Milkman
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 11:45am

      Ag commodities can be very sensitive to changes in supply (and demand considerations) fro one ‘crop year’ to the next. It is the marketplace that determines ‘equilibrium price’…… It simply does not compute ‘nicely’ to where you want to think ….’drop supply 5% and price goes up 5%’…..it just doesn’t work that way. I’m in the dairy business…the price of butter in OCT ‘09 stood at about
      $ 1.25 /lb……12 months later (end of Sept. ‘10) it stood at $ 2.2350 /lb.—— almost doubling and yet domestic butter production from 2009 to 2010 dropped by about a mere 1%……the real reason for this was worldwide demand increased dramatically…….. so unfortuantely its not a simple mathmatic equation……..

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    • PossumRoadkill
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 12:19pm

      Glad someone else noticed that. Obamanomics , 1+13 = 37? I bet if we lifted the lid on this story we would find that all these companies have lobbies who are in bed with the Obama Admin. Same thing is going on in the drug business. My wife can’t get some of her generic meds and has to switch to the more expensive brand name meds. You watch, it will happen in other places soon.

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    • JohnGaltSpeaks
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 12:40pm

      @herkdriver234 –

      By assuming that someone is ‘making a lot of money’ by the increase in peanut butter prices, you are missing some significant points about how market price is determined.

      A) You are assuming that the supply/demand curve for peanut butter is linear, where a supply decrease of X percent is equal to a price increase of X percent – whereas most supply and demand curves by their very nature have areas that are more vertical and some areas of the curve that are more horizontal.

      In other words, there are certain areas of the supply/demand curve where a supply decrease of X percent may result in a price increase of anywhere from 2 to 10 or more times X percent.

      B) An increase of price from 450$/ton to 1200$/ton is a 266% increase in price, not a 37.5% increase – a 37 percent increase would have raised prices from 450 to 616$/ton.

      I’m not trying to say whether the increase in price is good or bad, the main point I am trying to make here is that in order to properly understand what is going on in the economy you need to apply some logic and sound economic priciples to your thinking – don’t go off half-cocked and just assume someone is screwing you over, jumping to conclusions is for people like the OWS folks.

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    • TELITLYKITIS
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 2:14pm

      YEP! Soros and the Progressives in office and their families and friends.!!!

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  • cntrlfrk
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:16am

    ‘
    Woohoo!

    Hit a sale last week and bought four jars at less than $2 each!

    .

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    • mils
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:29am

      Peanut butter is part of our storage foods.
      We tried the freeze dried peanut butter and it is great! We have been gathering things for a couple of years now.

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    • countryfirst
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:46am

      Redistribute some from the democratic peanut gallery, that should lower the price.

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  • aquablue
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:14am

    I live in the central plains and this was the worst summer I’ve ever seen. Cattle were hungry this summer because they had no grass to eat, so they had to eat stockpiled and or bought feed.
    Farmers had to have hay and feed shipped in from Wisconsin in order to feed cattle for this winter. (The freight cost more than the feed.)
    Wheat and corn based foods will be going up too.

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 12:59pm

      it is so sad watching the livestock. friends sent photos of their’s headed for slaughter in texas during the worst of it. I wish these idiots would stop exporting major amounts of hay from my area to japan leaving us with no feed and I hope they stop this ethenal nonsense soon so we can get back to affordable grain prices. it is just out of control, the “new” ways the government has come up with the ruin the agrictultural industry. God bless

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  • Too Treaded Upon
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:10am

    @hickory and others, we (government) does control the weather. It is used as a weapon and has been for some time. Look into HAARP for starters then reconsider the weather part of your post. As far as the farmer part you are 100% correct.

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    • InversionTheory
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:21am

      I don’t buy it. If we REALLY had control of the weather, why the droughts in Texas? Or the snow storm in the Northeast? Are we creating weather disasters on purpose to cover our ability to control the weather?

      Doesn’t make much sense to me.

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    • LANE131
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 1:02pm

      Weather control by the government, i do not really buy that, because the selfish government workers, congress, the white house, and the rest of them would always have it sunny and 72 just over Washington DC in the dead of winter, but no where else.

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    • Moosedrool
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 1:08pm

      I have looked into HAARP and have found out that there are many other such facilities around the world. Its not just the USA that is screwing with the weather. I believe they are all working together to control us all by messing with the weather. Many of the websites for the other facilities have all kinds of “global warming” information. I believe they are trying to make “man caused global warming” and then blame it on what we, the sheeple are doing. Unfortunately for them, the weather is not responding they way they expect so they have to change what they call it.
      Just like medical specialists tend to forget that the human body is a complete system and you have to treat the whole person, not just one part, so is the earth. These people talk about “ecosystems” and then try to control one part of it and all the other parts respond.
      As far as peanut butter, we have been using almond butter for years and it tastes much better. Non-separating peanut butters do have hydrogenated soybean oil in them and most have sugars added.

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    • Too Treaded Upon
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 1:42pm

      Has our government used anything for the good of the people??? Our current admin needs all the disasters they can get to distract us from the real problems. Deeper research into the matter will be helpful. Droughts as mentioned go toward food shortages…a needed disaster. Not trying to sell this agenda just look deeper that the msm would have you believe. Too much proof to totally dismiss this. Dutchsinse can predict floods, tornado”s, severe weather at 87% two to three days in advance. Other site do the same thing. The reasoning behind its current use is odd to me too but so is most of our current (and past) government actions.

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  • beekeeper
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:08am

    Who is to blame – Bush, of course!

    Bush refused to sign the Koyoto Protocol, which would have cut carbon emissions, which would have helped fight global warming, which caused the drought that caused peanut prices to sky rocket.

    (Nevermind that Clinton refused to sign the same Koyoto Protocol while he was in office and that in hindsight the protocol was unworkable – http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2001-06-12-kyoto.htm )

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    • mils
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:30am

      bull

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    • jklbus
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:51am

      if USA Today is where you get your news, it’s no wonder you believe that Mankind is causing global warming, despite the debunking of the science.

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    • NOBAMA201258
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 11:17am

      Are you serious? You must have been stung many times by those bees to believe the BS that you just posted

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    • OneTermPresident
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 11:25am

      The Earth stopped warming (and it was only seven tenths of one degree to start with) 11 years ago… it’s been in the news.

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    • Moosedrool
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 1:16pm

      Hey knee-jerk reactors! Did you actually read what this person wrote? It looks tongue-in-cheek to me.

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    • SweetOlBob
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 1:58pm

      Global warming caused the drought ? Along with the drowning Polar Bears ? And the record high snowfalls ? And the rising number of rap music artists ? And the Rain In Spain On The Plain ? And the National Debt ? And the non existent glaicer melt ? And the smaller number of pecans in butter-pecan ice cream ? And my shoes always coming untied ?

      Good to inow that !

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    • vanman4446
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:08am

      ********.

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  • Sugabee
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:06am

    I’ve been stocking up for a WHILE — all under my bed! :)

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    • thekuligs
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:15am

      Me too, but I think I am going to see if I can buy more today at the old prices. Should be able too if the company set to raise their prices yesterday the stores won’t have adjusted them yet. (I hope)

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    • carbonated
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:19am

      I’ve been stocking up for a while too – under by BELT!

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 4:50pm

      Wow, that should be good for what? Two, three weeks? Pfftt

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  • Brad Wesselmann
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:06am

    This doesn’t make sense…don’t believe the reason, but definitely believe the lack of availability.

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  • Hickory
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:01am

    Being a farmer requires guts and fortitude not to mention skill. Their life is a gamble. Crop failures happen from time to time and those farmers who manage to harvest a crop during bad times deserve the increased prices because, next time, he may be the one who get clobbered. Face it; we do not control the weather. I doubt the increase in the price of peanut butter is very bad. But, the other products from peanuts may cause problems. Peanut oil and other derivatives are used for a myriad of products.

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    • BCPATIOT
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:38am

      @Hickory- you have a good grasp of the situation.

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    • SDmom
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:58am

      Thank you Hickory, farming is not for the faint of heart.

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  • TRILO
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:59am

    Bad weather and alternative crops – wonder if they chose to grow corn so that we can put it in our fuel tanks rather than have food for our bodies? Like Glenn has said over the years…. historians will look back at us like we lost our minds.

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    • BCPATIOT
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:30am

      You haven’t a clue. Quit parroting what the left says. I’m afarmer,I know the persentages,the grain from ethonal. The making of fuel is effieent. THe water is recycled,etc. It’s not food from my table-or yours. And Finally since my husbandbought ffarm/worked the farm with his parents/ a family operation in the family since who knows when-he can make a profit . It’s the so-called corp. “farmers”,Carter etc. that’s hurt u.s.He fixes his own stuff’ is Very wise w/$,etc. Our taxes are tied to the Grain prices. Tools cost twice as much. If the gov. would get the H**l out of the way this country would be Better.In order for the Gov. to “correct their screw-ups”,they enacted subsidies. Get rid of ‘em,let us compete. The Only reason the Midwest is’nt suffering to the degree of the rest of the country, is because of the trickle-down effect of The Farmer on the Economy!!!

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  • Mojoron
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:59am

    Jimmy Carter should feel pretty good right now.

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    • Hickory
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:02am

      I don’t think Jimah Cawter feels much of anything. Go down to Plains and ask someone. Just drive down the road and ask the first person you meet. Be prepared for profanity.

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:18am

      Is he still breathing?

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  • Vechorik
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:54am

    Anyone know where to buy peanut butter in a CAN. Those plastic jars leak oxygen over time and shortens the shelf life.

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    • dimonds2000
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:59am

      nuts do not last and go rancid quick

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    • JennyZ
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:15am

      Adams uses glass jars, and I save the quart-size jars to store other foods.

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    • mils
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:38am

      keep in refrigerator..in jars.. use a vacuum ******/sealer if possible and put in ref…also, we bought freeze dried peanut better and it is great and lasts..

      we have a used ref in garage that we put these type things in..overflow and things we want to keep for a while and not freeze.

      Our foods are subsidized so heavily that none of this surprises us.

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    • 1Kansas
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 12:33pm

      Sam’s club 6 pound can.

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  • wbedding
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:53am

    thanks to Obummer, we’re all in this sticky mess…

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  • gmoneytx
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:45am

    Never let a good crisis go untouched!

    We can call this one ButterGate!

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  • a_lady_patriot
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:43am

    This should be your stock up item this week…peanut butter a great staple!

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  • cemerius
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:40am

    ahhhh 13% less crop cause the prices to increase per ton over 100%? Peanut butter is nectar from God now I am certain we are in the End of Days……….

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  • chondram
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:32am

    It won’t just be peanut butter prices affected. The south (mid) eastern summer and winter crops were destroyed by floods, Midwest crops ruined by drought and intense heat. Not to mention all the cattle-pig farmers who had to send their live stock in early for slaughter because they didn’t have food and water. That is just in the US, the world’s bread basket.

    All other nations were affected due to the above and more (pestilence and radiation).

    People would be very-very wise to stock up on food supplies NOW and don’t purchase anything from Japan or western China (and maybe not the western part of the US), due to the Fukushima radiation.

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    • CHULAIGUY
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 1:25pm

      Think things are bad now? 7 Billion mouths to feed in 2011. By 2025 it will be close to 8 Billion.
      Farming will have to get beeter all over the planet or we are going to see shortagesd world wide.
      Going to war for food will soon be the norm.

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  • Sandy
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:30am

    The Bernack would call this “transitory”.

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  • Bobby P
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:27am

    My dog is going to be disappointed.

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    • 408 CheyTac
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:01am

      Exactly what I was thinking.

      Need a new morning snack for the hounds. My wolfies will be disappointed.

      OWS tartar maybe?

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  • raderby
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:25am

    yeah, there’s no inflation, and no recession at all.

    Report Post » raderby  
  • dgremark12
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:24am

    Enough already! Don’t F with my peanut butter!

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  • ChangeChomp
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:20am

    Nooooooooooo! I refuse to use that Socialist Nutella Crap! Guess I’ll have to stockup..

    Report Post » ChangeChomp  
    • HAPPYRWE
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 1:08pm

      I love Nutella, what is their deal………..??

      Report Post » HAPPYRWE  
  • JLGunner
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:18am

    damn, my pb & j will be reduced to just j.

    Report Post » JLGunner  
  • Stoic one
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:16am

    We have been stocking up for several weeks. My wife heard rumors else where about this.

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