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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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How many pounds?
Try grilled pork steak with creole seasoning. You won’t think about beef for a while.
Beef has been scarcer since 2019, when the U.S. cattle inventory began a multi-year decline. The herd dropped from roughly 94.7 million head in 2019 to 86.2 million head, reaching a 75-year low.
Wish I could find your deal. :)
How are the Democrats going to make more cows? Pork is dirt cheap nowadays-easier to raise a pig than a cow.
Break up Tyson, Cargill, JBS, and Smithfield and see what happens to prices.
I bought gas today $3.89 per gallon.
Exactly! All of us who have to pay higher gas prices are ‘eating’ this expense and can’t just ‘pass it on’ to others. Why shouldn’t the ‘inconvenience’ of fighting to keep the world safe be shared equally - including these corporations?
My general feeling is that if corporations like these don’t play ball with the American public, then we should support government dismantling of whatever market monopolies they have. Letting people screw you and your family under the guise of ‘free markets’ is foolish - at best. Fight back, and MAKE them do the right thing (they truly do NOT have much choice when push comes to shove).
I am a die hard capitalist, and believe strongly in the rights and sanctity of individuals to elevate themselves in the world via their efforts. That said, using a crisis to increase your profits, particularly when the crisis involves our national security, is pathetically and definitively immoral.
Only if you're in South Florida. I go to that discount deal at least twice a week. Another thing I get a lot of are boxes containing a dozen 330 ml containers of coconut water (NOT from concentrate) for just $5 each. As a result pretty much all I drink now other than coffee is coconut water. Bottles of pretty good wine are $1.99 and I bought a case of Amazonia beer for just $10. I can't drink liquor right now because I'm fighting a cold but as soon as it lifts I'll be going back to drinking that again. Oh, and the next time I go there I will be checking out the deals on cold medicine since he has a lot of medical stuff.
Talked a couple of nights ago to a rancher friend in Utah that I’ve known since the 1970s. He said he’s been trying to increase the size of his cattle herd (he also has sheep) for several years now, but the drought in Utah meant his calf crop was only half the size this year that he wanted and hoped for.
Of course, the drought is Trump’s fault....
Actually, after 50+ years of ranching, he says this is how it goes. You can plan, work hard, do your best - and sometimes the Lord puts His thumb on the scales and you fall short. His sheep are doing better which is one of the reason he raises both.
As he told me years ago, “I work hard all year and at the end find out if I made a profit!” I couldn’t handle the stress of that life, which he found funny: “You could handle being shot at over Iraq, but not ranching?”
Nope. Didn’t stress over combat but I’d worry myself to death if I was a rancher or a farmer!
There’s going to be a lot of angry FReepers when the Dems don’t take the House & Senate.
Well, not really a lot, just a handful of noisy haters.
“Ongoing drought in the Western US is widely cited.”
Arizona is going to get its Colorado River water cut big time. Just not enough water. In Utah right now, some of the reservoirs are at record lows.
Lake Powell, at the AZ-UT border “is nearing critically low water elevation levels, the latest data shows.
As of Monday, water levels at Lake Powell measured at 3,524.3 feet above sea level, according to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation tracker.
Minimum, or “dead,” power pool — in which the water is too low to spin the hydroelectric turbines and can no longer produce hydropower — starts at 3,490 feet of elevation, Peter Soeth, public affairs lead at the Bureau of Reclamation, told ABC News. Elevation at Lake Powell is currently about 34 feet above the minimum power pool.”
Lake Mead, near Las Vegas?
“Elevation at Lake Powell is currently measuring at 3,522.78 feet, according to the Bureau of Reclamation — nearing the previous record low of 3,519.92 feet set in April 2023 and the critical level needed for the reservoir to produce hydropower. A new record low at Lake Powell could be reached in August, projections show.
Lake Powell reaching critically low elevation levels, nearing ‘dead power pool,’ experts say. Once water levels at Lake Powell drop to 3,490 feet, the water is too low to spin the hydroelectric turbines needed to produce power. The reservoir is about 33 feet away from this stage, known as minimum, or “dead,” power pool.
“Dead pool,” when water can no longer flow past Glen Canyon Dam by gravity, can occur at 3,370 feet.”
https://abcnews.com/US/lake-mead-lake-powell-nearing-record-low-levels/story?id=135123327
Not everything is Trump’s fault, regardless of what the press and some people on FR say!
Except all you post are derogatory comments about Trump, immigration & Jews. You obviously have an agenda & you’ve lost your way. Go back to DU.
So you’re a libertarian then. They refuse to take a stance on an issue unless they can use it to bash Trump & MAGA. Ooh, such courage! 🤣
The Meijer grocery stores near us in Michigan put their 80/20 ground beef on sale for $3.69 a lb several times a year in 3.5 lb packages. I buy and repack/freeze. A local meat counter sells a beef pork ground blend for $3.00 per pond and I use it instead. I’ve used the 1lb packs of domestic WAGUY ground beef from Aldi and mixed with grounf pork or chckken or turkey 1lb frozen chubs from walmart. The waguy is 73/27 at best so the lean turkey or chicken mixes nicely and moderates the fat content. Great for Manwich and taco meat, meatloaf, etc.
There once was a C*NT...
Oh yeah, it was (look in mirror)
And the Republicans wonder why DSA candidates are winning everywhere.
Prices will not come down unless the ag conglomerates are trust busted.
Out the door, regular 80% Beef hamburger will cost you around $6.50 a pound here in rural South... You can occasionally find it at $5.00 a pound (on sale or bulk purchases).
Yes, Beef is high. One can stop pretending it ain’t.
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