Lettuce Prices See Record-Setting Plunge

Lettuce prices cratered in July as the multistate cyclospora outbreak pushed diners to shun the leafy green. Prices for the vegetable tumbled 16.4% from June, the largest one-month decline on record. Lettuce also posted the sharpest month-over-month deflation within the consumer price index’s food category in July, which saw overall prices tick up 0.1% in the period.  Read more here.