Saturday 11th October 2025

The latest Consumer Price Index for April was the highest one-month jump reported since September 2008 but an economist with American Farm Bureau says he’s not concerned inflation will last long term.

Bob Young tells Brownfield supply chain disruptions and labor costs are mainly behind upticks higher with labor likely to have the largest impact this year.

“I think it’s going to be labor costs that are really going to drive what these inflationary expectations are as we roll forward,” he says. 

   

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