Posted on 05/14/2020 8:07:27 PM PDT by Steely Tom
Haha. Now I can’t get a beef brisket at a bbq restaurant here in North Carolina. This isn’t Texas anyway so pork is king here. I guess we’ll survive haha.
My local HEB grocery store is well stocked. They do limit you to I think 3 purchases of meat products. That is about my normal purchase when I shop. The prices of such are just like the past.
Just Damn, I love Texas!!!!!
The freezer is full (thank the electric coop).
Local ranchers are still producing.
#BaconForBfast.
#Grilled steak for din.
Murder Hornets took over-
$8.67 for a 3 pound package of local bacon in Oregon.
The scare flopped. Give President Trump credit in knocking that out very quickly.
Covid deaths are just a fraction of the covid hog cull. You may not be noticing much now, but there will be disruptions and it will take time to work through the pipeline. Pigs get big quickly (and then too big to process) and have others being started to take their place. Producers have been trying to slow the process down where they can and this will cause larger ripples to be felt in months to come. There will be impacts (both market and emotional) from the massive numbers of hogs destroyed and replacements not started. I fear the toll that this will take on family and independent producers.
My local HEB grocery store is well stocked. They do limit you to I think 3 purchases of meat products. That is about my normal purchase when I shop. The prices of such are just like the past.
Just Damn, I love Texas!!!!!
Yee haw!!
Indeed.
My HEB butcher told me, weeks ago, that there were NO meat shortages, as far as he and his upper management could see.
They don’t want us to notice or focus on all the pork we’re sending to our Chinese overlords instead of eating ourselves.
Pork specials and cheap prices have absolutely disappeared in my somewhere-special part of the country.
Production is down about 24% but rising as plants come back on line.
Not sure what suburb you're in, I'm in the far southwest suburbs of shitcago and it seems to depend on where you go for meat.
The Jewel near my home seems to have plenty but prices are very high (typical for Jewel, Union store..) the Meijer near me has become completely useless. If you're not there in the morning to get fresh meat you're shit outta luck. It seems they stock once a day in the morning and that's it.
I had trouble finding fresh chicken breasts for a few weeks, Aldi seems to have them anytime I want them. Meijer only has backs, thighs and drumsticks. Jewel has chicken breasts at 2.5x the Aldi cost.
It's getting ridiculous.
Well stocked in Tulsa. Bacon on sale for 3.29/pd for past few weeks at my store. Every time I go I browse the butcher section and snag 2 pounds of that bacon and throw it in the deep freeze. I finally stopped. I’m flush with it!
I believe it. I’ve never seen bare meat shelves at the restaurant depot.
Stopped in a Sprouts Market in Palo Alto, CA this afternoon. Meat counter was completely stocked and ham, pork, and bacon were plentiful.
They even had no-name paper towels and TP on hand.
The store ran out of paper bags! They were scrambling to find cardboard boxes to groceries in. Poor guy in the next checkout line over had the bottom of his box give way and his purchases went on the floor.
Rhinelander, Wisconsin is in Oneida County. (Northern Wisconsin)
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