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Why is lettuce so expensive? Costs have shot up, and won't return to where they were

  • Written by Flavio Macau, Associate Dean - School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
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Lettuce prices are skyrocketing. Twitter users are posting photos of iceberg lettuces for A$10 and $11.99, well above the more usual $2.80.

It’s not new, and it’s not only lettuce. The peak body for Australian vegetable producers, AUSVEG, says between 2006 and 2016 costs - and most likely prices - more than doubled.

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