BOISE -- Dairy and grains are two staples Great Harvest Bread in Boise can't go a day without.
But recently the price of both has gone up.
"We go through 15 to 20 pounds of butter a day and butter's gone up about 30% so we may have to raise some of those prices," said Zach England of Great Harvest.
So far the Boise bakery has held the line and customers aren't paying more.
“We've pretty much absorbed price increases in the last six months," England said.
Jake Putnam of the Idaho Farm Bureau says the higher prices means customers will pay a little bit more for bread and dairy at the check-out line, but the difference will be pennies, if there's a difference at all.
"To the consumer you will see a small increase," said Jake Putnam of the Idaho Farm Bureau.
A bushel of wheat last year was $5.50, now it's about $6.20, it’s predicted it could be $7.00 by early next year.
Putnam says Idaho's wheat farmers are benefitting from the inflated costs caused by conditions overseas.
"In Russia we have a huge drought. All of a sudden on the world market, there's not as much wheat so our farmers here are exporting and all of a sudden, we're making a lot of money," Putnam said.
It's not the same case for bakery owners like Zach England of Great Harvest who would have to buy the more expensive wheat.
He doesn't expect wheat prices to get as high as they did two years ago.
"In 2008, they skyrocketed, they doubled and so we really felt the effects of that and we had to raise our prices then but they have since stabilized a little bit," said England.
Great Harvest Bread buys its grain more than a year in advance, so today's higher prices don't affect them too much.
And they buy a lot of their grain from Montana.
The wet spring also caused a smaller yield on other Idaho crops like potatoes and onions.
The farm bureau says as a result, prices of those will go up too, but it will be just a few cents higher.
