Bring back Country of Origin Labeling for beef and pork.
That would help domestic producers.
Beef Prices are unreal.
The shortage started because of covid. Fuel, fertilizer, parts shortage, etc
Local custom beef farmer I know wrote a long article in the Indy Star in 2021 about it and said to expect this to be a problem for years.
It’s a long more than dry weather involved
Yesterday I saw a 2 pack of decent looking boneless ribeyes...$35.....and that was at Walmart......When we go to Publix I don’t even look anymore. SMH
Mr. President, please allow the free market to operate. Ranchers’ costs have gone up and they have to receive prices that allow them to stay in business. The best cure for high prices is high prices. Herds will increase, demand will drop and before long prices will decrease. Works every time if allowed.
I vaguely remember eating beef.
Cattle numbers are at a 70 year low. A lot of small producers have just quit producing. There is a reason for that. Production costs have been at an all time high. Covid shut in production, bidet raised prices, we still burn grain for fuel, the processors (butchers) have a big hand in the price increase. The current market price is part of about $5 a lb for what you buy. Do you think you could maybe make it on $10.50 a lb for meat that cost you $5 for the raw material if you were a processor and grocer?
Trump can’t scold producers into lower prices. His Secretary of Agriculture is ignorant if she has not tried to explain this to him.
There is also nothing wrong with foreign beef. Sorry to have to tell the truth. Some of the very best beef I have eaten is from Brazil and Argentina.
South West Virginia is a large producer of Angus cattle.
By my reckoning and observations, herds of angus are at the largest in my memory. Why, he wonders?
Ranchers can’t lower the price, that doesn’t make sense.
IS someone going to tell him us ranchers do not set the prices?
I was going to buy 3-4 Cow-calf pairs back in late spring and prices were sky high as used to be around $2000 for a good pair but had went to $4000-5000 range and even for newborns which are risky was up in the $700-900 range. Heck even chicks has gone from $3.50 to $6 and higher. First year I broke out my incubators instead of ordering new birds...
It’s all a mess. Demonopolize, deregulate, jail Gates and Algore, and 1000 other things to allow a free market to actually operate, including such idiocies as the Chinese and Bill Gates scarfing up agricultural land.
Did we vote for Trump to get into the socialist business of price controls?
the beef demand is directly related to the herd size and the number of people in the US.
before biden’s admin, we had 30m+ illegals in the country. this isn’t counting their kids, who are also in the US illegally.
then biden and crew dragged 20m more illegals into the country from jan 2021 to jan 2025.
that’s 50m+ illegals in the US increasing the demand for beef
which is a 16% increase.
remove ALL illegals and solve many problems
More people eat out at food joints than ever, and the prices there are higher than ever...and then bitch about the price of groceries. DJT needs to concentrate on wiping out the demoncrap left and stop worrying about farmers and ranchers. THEY will do what they HAVE to do to stay in business.
All prices skyrocketed under COVID for all sorts of reasons. Supply chains. Shut downs.
COVID ended but price increases never come back down all the way. Remember $4-5 gas under Obama and motor oil went from $3/qt to $6/qt? Gas prices came down but oil never did. Why?
Pre COVID OSB was $8-9/sheet. During COVID it went to $40/sheet. It’s currently $15/sheet. Why?
This was all pre tariff and has always been an ongoing thing. Use any excuse to increase prices temporarily and never bring them all the way back down.
We have a greed problem and consolidation/centralization problem causing lack of competition.
Even though grain prices are lower now, the higher prices of the past few years have boosted costs for the animal/meat production sector for years. You can point specifically to the 2005 ethanol mandate and implemented over the next few years. U.S. cattle population reached a cyclical peak at 97 million head in Jan. 2007. Totaled just 86.7 million early this year.
Yes they are absurd. The price went up because the cost of transport went through the roof under barak and biden, which drove th3 price of everything up. Gas prices are gert8ng lower now, and p4ices of goods should r3flect that. P4ifes 5hough f9r gas around us are still high, $3.50, but other places its in the $2 range. Under obama the price soared to $4.60 a gallon (and in some states around $7 a gallon)
But we all knew that once conpanies got a taste of higher p4ices, they would be loathe to reduce costs again once gas and transport prices reduced.
The price of weeds is at an all time high.