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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$3.99 lb for 80/20% ground beef in SW oregon.
Cut back some of this for price domestic inflation control for starters:
DOGE wasn’t real.✖️
https://www.warcosts.org/us-military-bases-around-the-world
750 absolute nonsense. ✖️
Wow ! I can get a pound of Kumamoto wagyu for that price .
I bought local/regional ground chuck (not ground beef) today at our local butcher shop - a real butcher shop- 10 pounds at $5.59 a pound.
https://boonesbutchershop.com/
My wife is buying from some local waygu guy. Not sure if it is cheaper but it is good.
ground beef or ground chuck, or ground sirloin or ground round?
Big difference.
Ow weee.
Good point, and, we can also make our own 50/50 blend of ground pork and ground beef. I like it well. I prefer it for making meatballs.
I buy tri-tip roasts from Smart and Final, in bulk. They sell cryovac packs of four or five together.
I eat one a week. I just put one in the oven, just over five pounds. This last batch was just over 20 pounds total, $146.
I stopped buying steaks and hamburger because the grease flies everywhere.
I’ve been paying $9.99 a pound for 93%....and it is worth it. Grandson brought home 2 lbs of the cheap Walmart rolls the other day and asked me to cook it for him to make something he could take to work for lunch. I was amazed at the amount of water and grease in those 2 lbs.
” severe energy shocks and supply-chain bottlenecks.”
Lots of pasture land was converted to grow corn to make ethanol. Also the corn can’t be used for feed, driving up the cost of feeding livestock. It’s not the 8 percent increase in gas prices. When crude oil goes back to $68 as it was in March, beef will continue to go up.
I used to get the 93%, but have “downgraded” a bit. A little more fat seems to have better flavor. (To us.)
I had a great history teacher back in the day who would introduce every new presidential administration with the comment “and as usual there was the farm crisis”.
Lol.
Yesterday, for the first time, I went to a local butcher and got: 20 pounds ground chuck, 20 pounds of sirloin and New York strips, and a couple of 2 pound roasts, 44 pounds in all, for $434 including tax and credit card fee. Still trying to figure out if that was a good deal or not.
The time it takes for a beef cow to go from birth to processing takes three years at minimum. The reduction in heads the past few years is coming back to bite us.
Thanks you though for providing another reason for the rising cost of beef.
Perhaps you can answer why that corn can not be used as feed for the stock.. No reason why dual-purpose cannot be allowed, that I can see. Perhaps the answer is because they get more for the corn as a fuel additive, than any restriction?
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