Why has the price of Pistachio Nuts skyrocketed in recent years?

Mowgli

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The price of all natural things is going up. If its processed its cheap.
 

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Scratch what i said. Heres the best answer from yahoo questions. Looks like its a pretty involved process.

Because so much of the work of processing the nuts has to be done by hand. The process goes like this:(6)

* The fruit falls off the tree.
* People pick up the fruit and twist off the nut.
* People put the nut in water for soaking.
* People lay out the nuts to be sun dried.
* People crack open every single nut individually. They use a machine that is powered by their hands and feet.
* People pick out the nut from the shell by hand.
* People remove the red skin from the nut with a knife.
* People grade the nuts into one of 22 grades.
 

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Scratch what i said. Heres the best answer from yahoo questions. Looks like its a pretty involved process.

Because so much of the work of processing the nuts has to be done by hand. The process goes like this:(6)

* The fruit falls off the tree.
* People pick up the fruit and twist off the nut.
* People put the nut in water for soaking.
* People lay out the nuts to be sun dried.
* People crack open every single nut individually. They use a machine that is powered by their hands and feet.
* People pick out the nut from the shell by hand.
* People remove the red skin from the nut with a knife.
* People grade the nuts into one of 22 grades.

hey, whatup man i didn't know you were on here.
 

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The price of multiple AG goods have been rising and will continue to do so for a number of reasons, i.e. an inflationary policy via The Fed, speculation on the futures market, input costs rising (fuel and the transport), weather (and basic market mechanisms such as any supply shocks leading to a smaller shortage), etc, etc. Farming is a good field/industry to get into in the future for some of these reasons also.
 
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