NO, IT'S NOT DUE TO QE OR THE FEDERAL DEFICIT

For the record, I'd like to note that the coming increases in food prices are not due to quantitative easing or the size of the federal debt and that's from the Paper of US Capitalism:

Food Prices Surge as Drought Exacts a High Toll on Crops

Costs Pinch Consumers, Companies Still Grappling With Sluggish Economic Recovery

By Tony C. Dreibus, Leslie Josephs and Julie Jargon
Updated March 18, 2014 10:47 a.m. ET
WALL STREET JOURNAL

UPDATE: This graph is from the WSJ -