date:Feb 18, 2013
anting and harvesting seasons, which affected the crop in 2012.
There was a smaller crop for avocados in 2012, after a bumper season in 2011. Meat, poultry, and fish prices increased 1.9 per cent, largely due to chicken, which increased 9.6 per cent from a low point in January 2012.
Grocery food (down 1.5 per cent) was the only subgroup that decreased in the year to January 2013. Decreases in the prices of fresh milk (down 9.4 per cent), cheese (down 6.0 per cent), butter (down 18 per cent), a