An Axios article by Courtenay Brown reports that wholesale food prices rose 1.7% from a year earlier, ending a three-month streak of declines, with wholesale vegetable prices surging 27% in one month after a 31% jump the month before. Warm weather, crop disease, and infestations cut California leafy green harvests, the Iran war raised fertilizer and fuel costs, and truck freight costs jumped nearly 25%, while Axios says it is unclear how much of the surge reaches consumers.