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Posted on 08/18/2026 3:37:15 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
Average ground beef price per pound:
🔵 June 2024: $5.47 🔴 June 2025: $6.12 🔴 June 2026: $6.83 [Tr]
Up 11.5% from 2025 and nearly 25% from 2024
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One of the sources:
A.) Lewiston Trubune
“Sticker shock at the meat counter”
8/15/2016
https://www.lmtribune.com/agriculture/sticker-shock-at-the-meat-counter-ab3650ff
B.) Additional things to think about:
“The 2026 Iran war has drastically accelerated the rise in U.S. beef prices by triggering severe energy shocks and supply-chain bottlenecks. While a domestic cattle shortage laid the groundwork for high prices, the conflict has compounded these issues by aggressively driving up the core costs of producing, processing, and moving meat.
1. The Strait of Hormuz Blockade and Diesel SpikesThe ongoing maritime conflict and blockade of the Strait of Hormuz caused what energy analysts call the largest oil market disruption in history.
Transportation Overhead:
Global crude oil prices spiked, pushing U.S. diesel prices to multi-year highs earlier this year.
Perishable Logistics: Because cattle must be trucked multiple times throughout their lifecycle (from ranches to feedlots to processors), record-high diesel costs have been directly added to the retail price of ground beef. Perishable foods are highly sensitive to these freight increases.
2. Doubling Fertilizer and Feed CostsThe agricultural sector has faced a severe input crisis due to shifting energy markets.
Natural Gas Connection: Natural gas is the primary component used to manufacture nitrogen-based fertilizers. As the war drove up natural gas and utility rates, fertilizer costs nearly doubled.
Feedlot Expenses: High fertilizer prices made growing foundational crops like corn significantly more expensive. Because corn feed accounts for 60% to 65% of the total cost of raising a pound of beef, these inflated feedlot expenses immediately trickled down to consumers.
3. Elevated Processing and Utility Costs:
Keeping meat safe requires massive amounts of electricity and natural gas for industrial processing and cold storage. Under the pressure of wartime inflation, domestic utility rates have climbed—including an 8% rise in electricity and a 12% increase in natural gas. Packing plants have passed these elevated operational overhead costs directly to grocery store meat cases.
4. Compounding Tariff Pressures:
The geopolitical instability from the war has run parallel to aggressive trade policies and import restrictions. The combination of global supply-chain friction and heavy tariffs means U.S. ranchers and processors face high costs for machinery, equipment, and alternative inputs, with few affordable international workarounds.” (Google AI)
1.) Forbes
“How The Strait Of Hormuz Blockade Could Drive Up U.S. Beef Prices”
3/25/2026
2.) Michigan Farm News
“Fuel & Fertilizer Price Tracker”
Aug. 18, 2026”
https://www.michiganfarmnews.com/fuel-fertilizer-price-tracker
3.) Market Talk
“Has the Iran War impacted global meat trade?”
4/8/2026
4.) WRAL
“Fact-check: Trump says of prices: ‘the food, the groceries, it’s all coming down’”
8/11/2026
5.) ABC News
“Grocery prices fell in July but the cost of these food staples is still climbing”
8/18/2026
6.) News Nation
“How Iran war, Strait of Hormuz blockage is affecting beef prices in US”
4/7/2026
Average includes states with over regulation that drives up their prices like gasoline.
You can pay $4.44 at Walmart in the 10 pound chub.
slab of new york strip(prime)... 5 years ago, $85... 3 years ago $155... last week, $225...
I get about 16 to 20 steaks, 1-1/4” thick per slab. It used to be a REAL good deal buying bulk. it still is, but the happiness margin is quickly diminishing!
You are pricing in paper dollars....priced in Gold it is at historic lows.
Most just don’t understand or ever will.
The price of beef(which was record highs well above $7 to $9 per pound during Biden administration) , nor gasoline (which was $4.00 and $5.00 a gallon, driven by broad economic inflation during the Biden administration), is what is important right now as President Trump’s administration resets the the global trade to be America First. The prices will come down and the USA will be in a much superior place when this all comes to fruition. We have to hold on to our lead and it will take another America First administration to put the icing on this cake. People like you, need to take a step back and educate yourselves on what it truly taking place here.
Let Cows Fart Again!
Since meat is loaded with Saturated Fat (which is bad bad bad), and causes Colon Cancer - at least according the Junk Food Industry, the Medical/Drug Industry, and Leftists, one would be expecting the Left to be CELEBRATING, instead of taking cheap shots at Trump.
I just got 24 10 oz patties of ground Angus beef at $29.99 which came out to $3.75/lb. Sometimes you just have to LOOK for the deals.
Isolate the price for Commiefornia and adjust accordingly. We have the highest minimum wage in the country, the highest gas and diesel prices in the country, the highest energy priced in the country, the highest property taxes in the country and the most onerous regulations in the country.
Diesel on the Front Range in Colorado is kissing $6/gal.
This does not bode well for all the agriculture. Ranching and farming.
Meat and crop prices will probably go through the roof by this Fall.
Victory Gardens will be back in vogue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnwle4dsEgc
Be careful what you wish for, you mat get it and find that prices still wern't tamed.
With all of the illegal aliens that were let in, greater amounts are being spent to tuen that reality arounf.
Get Democrats back in control, and the problem will only gow worse.
I heard that the US cattle herd is at a 75 year low.
It’s far from the “left” doing this.
It’s the lefT, middle, right, libertarians, independents, pointing these things out.
Strange, feed has gone up a little (approx. 6%) at my usual feed store (part of a chain) but nowhere near doubling, despite it requiring more transportation, more handling, etc., than bulk feed.
“It’s the lefT, middle, right, libertarians, independents, pointing these things out.”
Anyone who goes shopping knows that prices are up - what I was talking about is the fact that the Left should be CELEBRATING the increase. Instead, they are taking cheap shots at Trump, which likely pleases some here, by the way.
Trump’s approval rating falls to new low in latest poll
By Daniel Miller
FOX9
8/18/2026
“President Donald Trump’s approval rating dipped to 33% with most Americans expressing disapproval of his performance, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
A majority of Americans responded that the U.S-Iran conflict will go on for a longer amount of time.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fox9.com/news/trumps-approval-rating-falls-poll.amp
It’s the left, right, center, independents, and libertarians are tired of the war, beef prices, gas prices, etc.
Dare we say “I hate Big Cattle?” My industry has always been hated when prices go up a quarter per gallon.
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