Beef prices going up????

[lunkerslayer]

He also has to lower tariffs to make that meat less expensive, its a shit show all by design on multiple fronts.

 

[ORCUS DEMENS]

He also has to lower tariffs to make that meat less expensive, its a shit show all by design on multiple fronts.

Could not agree more.
Shocking isn't it.
The current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is Making America Great Again by importing Beef which can be raised here.
He also put tariffs on items which can not be produced here.
Seems back%sswards to me.

 

[Fritz the Cat]

It's crazy. Green Peace has been soliciting for money for years to save the rain forest. The slashing and burning happening now is to raise more beef for the American market. It won't matter if the labels on that beef have an ugly brahma cow, a burning rain forest and American burger doodle logo. Our consumer will pick it up if it is 10 cents cheaper.

 

[lunkerslayer]

USDA

Since January 2025, there have been approximately 36,000 to 45,000 pounds of beef from USDA-inspected slaughterhouses and processing facilities that were definitively "found to be bad" (meaning lab-confirmed for pathogenic contamination like E. coli or

non-USDA

There are exactly 0 pounds of meat from non-USDA slaughterhouses that have been definitively "found to be bad" (meaning officially lab-confirmed to contain pathogens or chemical hazards) since January
Source
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-a...beef-products-imported-without-benefit-import

 

[Obi-Wan]

https://www.cattlerange.com/pages/market-reports/weekly-stocker-calves-prices-by-state

 

[Browneye]

This is a very prickly topic. I raised cows too and when I started out I sold many calves too for $400, was glad when we could get 500. Now ranchers are getting over 2000. I am glad todays ranchers are getting the good price to make up for drought years and low price years. But I am also a consumer of beef use alot of ground beef. I can't get used to paying $6-8 a pound for ground beef. So I don't get the slew of ranchers now on social media saying how much this importing of beef is hurting them, they come off tone deaf to the consumer who is also dealing with rising prices on everything else they but too. Years of large drought areas in the US have made ranchers make the hard choice to sell down cows to survive. The historic low cattle numbers can't be turned around overnight. When the decision is made to increase the herd its at least 3 years till the calf retained matures and raises the calf to be sold in the fall. And even that year that calf only replaces the meat that its mother would have been in the market if it had been sold 3 years earlier instead of kept to make a momma cow. I get that the current ranchers feel they are losing money with this importing of beef for a bit to bring the price down. But how much more do they feel the price of beef can go up before they start losing more market share nation wide to other meats like pork and chicken. To me beef is king and we eat alot of it but we already don't eat near as much as we used to or like to cause we just can't afford it. I have heard all the tired arguments against Country Of Origin Labeling law that other countries with retaliate with tariffs on it. But to me nothing will help more long term so that inferior meat from other countries can't be sold as US grown meat. Consumers would then have the information they need to either buy American to support US ranchers or buy the cheaper meat that who knows whats in it or how it was handled.

 

[KDM]

I raise a few hair sheep here at the fort to keep my old, fat, retired azz off the couch and staying active. I have come to love the taste of lamb in all it's forms. Ground lamb is fabulous. Leg steaks (steaked leg of lamb) is fast becoming my favorite cut of meat. Might be worth it to try finding a slaughter lamb from a producer here in ND and give lamb a try. One of my 100 lb Dorper lambs (that's a breed) will produce about a 55 lb carcass. I raise mine till they throw a 80-100 lb carcass (January slaughter timeframe) because I like a larger steak or chop. That 100 lamb costs around 236 bucks live weight at the sale barn in Sioux Falls SD as of Aug 19, 2026. It then will cost about 125 bucks to have it processed. Comes down to about 7 bucks a pound for lamb chops/steaks/ground lamb. Might be something to check out from a budgetary stand point.

Oh, I forgot to mention that processing your own lamb is identical to processing your own deer and a guy can skip the 125 dollar processing fee, making it even more economical.