Grain Prices On The Rise!!!

This was sent through a homesteading group I'm in and I thought the information was worth passing on.

Last week, I noticed the bread I occasionally buy when I run out of myyummy homemade, had gone up 50 cents a loaf, a whopping 25% increaseon bread since August! In my most recent newsletter, I wrote abouthow my wheat supplier had had to raise prices about 25% recently.Yesterday, another grain supplier wrote to us saying:"Wheat prices are very unstable and are climbing daily. We haveno choice but to raise our prices. This also affects the price of flour-which in a few weeks will affect the price of our baking mixes.It's is a merry-go-round. "If ever there was a good time to start baking your own bread, now isthe time. The cost of the grain is only a small portion of the costof bread and baked goods purchased in the store.Commercial bread and baked items include the cost of the plasticdisposable packaging, the bakery’s overhead for producing the bread,the transportation costs to ship the bread from the bakery to thestore, the bakery manager's salary, and other costs of purchasingready-made breads.If you are able to save just $10.00 a week on commercial breadsand baked goods by making them yourself, you will have a $520.00 nestegg, more than enough to justify an investment in a grain mill.How are you handling these large price increases on bread andcereal products?

Here is what Lisa posted:<<< I just bought two more 50 lb. bags of Prairie Gold wheatberries for about $17.00 a bag - the price has not gone up on thoseyet, Praise God. That means I can make my bread for about 50 cents aloaf. There's just no getting around the savings and the superiorquality of homemade bread. :)

This was posted by Marilyn her website is http://www.urbanhomemaker.com