[HamiltonJay]

14 after years of drought whittled the U.S. cattle herd down to a six-decade low.

Function of cost, not preference. Once Cattle numbers get back up to where they need to be prices will come down and consumption will go up.

$3 or $4 a lb for low end ground beef is all you need to know about why folks are choosing something else right now.

[ConservativeDude]

Beef is up, oil is down.

Both supply driven, it seems.

[Resolute Conservative]

I prefer elk over all of them.

[Balding_Eagle]

Don’t forget the spring blizzard in the Dakotas a couple year back killed over a hundred thousand, mostly cows.