(UNDATED) — Fireworks were not the only things sky high in Iowa this Fourth of July weekend. An American Farm Bureau Federation survey found consumers paid an average of nearly 70 dollars ($69.68) for standard July Fourth cookout fare, including more costly burgers, buns, potato salad, chips, lemonade, and ice cream. The item that rose in cost the most — ground beef, — was up a whopping 36 percent from last year. This breaks down to about seven dollars a person per ten cookout attendees. The survey found that prices are increasing based on the ongoing war in Ukraine, inflation across the consumer landscape, supply chain disruptions, and “package downsizng” due to the pandemic, among other factors.
