Why is my peanut butter so expensive? Signed peanut butter monster

Peanut butter prices may soon rise in Canada - thestar.com
Thanks to smaller U.S. peanut crop yields because of a drought in the southern U.S and a decision by American farmers to seed less acreage in peanut crops and plant more cotton, the price of a regular jar of peanut butter — even the organic kind you buy at health food stores — is likely going to go up sometime this year