[HereInTheHeartland]

“ The Sierra Club has shut down the ranching industry.”

They are bad people, but droughts have caused the problems .

[pierrem15]

Bad weather is certainly part of the problem, plus ever tighter restrictions on land use. But the body blow was the COVID restrictions that disrupted a carefully balanced supply chain in an industry where most participants survived on thin margins.

Now we're just seeing the fallout from the steady erosion of production and distribution, even with record high beef prices.