The Commodity Research Bureau's all commodities price index rose 0.7 percent month over month in May 2014. Contributing to the rise were increases in both major index subdivisions, foodstuffs (such as butter, cocoa beans, corn, cottonseed oil, hogs, lard, steers, sugar, and wheat) and raw industrial materials (such as burlap, copper scrap, cotton, hides, lead scrap, print cloth, rosin, rubber, steel scrap, tallow, tin, wool tops, and zinc). Since January 2014, the all commodities price index rose 9.5 percent, with foodstuffs rising 20.2 percent and raw industrial materials rising 2.7 percent. However, the all commodities index continues to be well below its April 2011 peak level of 575.7.
