[LouAvul]

I grow hay for sale in Oklahoma. With our drought we got $80/bale. Some who waited to sell got over $100 bale. Cattle ranchers paid that.

Other costs have gone up as well.

Could be there's nothing "artificial" about beef going up. This time it's inevitable. Ranchers are having a hard time.

[Red Badger]

I have read that a lot of ranchers sent their cattle to market early rather than pay the higher feed costs, so that momentarily depressed the prices because of over supply. Now we face a shortage because the market has higher priced cattle and not as many to meet the demand so price necessarily goes up.

Restaurant quality steaks are going thru the roof and the consumer quality is prohibitive for low income families.

Expect hamburgers to become very expensive.....................

[Elsie]

is that the big round bale?