There are a lot of reasons why beef, pork and chicken are record high prices.
Drought and fuel are two of them, but the main reason is labor, or the lack of it.
Just like every other industry, the large beef packing plants had to lay off 80% of their work force when the Covid hit.
Now that we are getting back to normal, those laid off workers don’t want to come back to work when they make just as much or more with the democrat $300 extra un-employment checks.
Some of them got other jobs, but most of them are content to sit at home and collect un-employment when the un-employment is just as big as their old payroll check.
When you have orders for a thousand cases of beef a day, but only have the labor to produce 300, guess what happens ?
Supply and demand.
You sell your 300 cases to whom ever will pay the most, and prices skyrocket.
