There was a huge slaughter during the early days of The Rona. Never understood why that happened. Beef prices fell briefly, then shot up, and have pretty much stayed up.
Floods and drought damaged a lot of feed crops (hays) during that time and actually killed a lot of animals. Some places didn’t have farms/buildings to take care of them. Then transportation was hard to get to haul a load for you, people sniped truck drivers from others to get their stuff delivered.