4th of July Cookout More Expensive This Year

          Your cookout for the Fourth of July weekend will cost a bit more this season.

          The Indiana Farm Bureau annual Fourth of July market basket of ten Fourth of July cookout items cost $64.32… a 13%  increase.  Nationally, the items together cost $69.68… a 17% raise.

          Among the products with the most increase is meat.  Various beef, pork, and chicken varieties have followed the inflationary rise upward in the last year.