especially for wheat prices. but there s so many other black swan events plaguing your dinner plate. take, for example, a hog disease outbreak that is shrinking herds in mexico. that s forcing mexico to turn to the united states for their pork supplies and that s driving up prices, like you mentioned with bacon. in january and february alone exports to mexico climbed 33% year over year. and then you ve got bird flu that s sweeping the nation in the united states forcing american farmers to kill millions of hens. when they re killing the hens, they re slashing the supply of eggs and that drives up the weekly prices, which right now is climbing 44% for a dozen large eggs compared to last year. keep in mind you ve got the easter holiday just around the corner so that s going to further add to demand. maybe you re thirsty. the u.s. department of agriculture said this year s citrus crop was expected to be the smallest in more than 50 years. frozen orange juice prices were up 17% in february