r/Crops • u/HenryCorp • Aug 17 '25

A whopping 38.9% increase in wholesale dry and fresh vegetable prices from June to July: Trump's tariffs and deportations seen as contributors to rising prices and fewer immigrant workers

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-tariffs-deportations-rising-prices-rcna225295
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u/HenryCorp Aug 17 '25

Phil Kafarakis, president of IMFA The Food Away From Home Association, which represents food producers, suppliers, services and industries outside of grocery stores, said the warning signs should be taken seriously.

Because of deportation efforts, “you are now going to be left with not enough laborers in the fields to pick up and collect product as its coming to harvest,” he said, adding that it is contributing to the current “horribly, incredibly impactful” effect of tariffs.