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Was in a high end grocery store this morn getting wife a croissant. Prime fillet mignon was $34.99 a pound. I did not buy any.


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Originally Posted by wabigoon
A couple weeks back the packers were making a thousand dollars a head.




And this is the problem.
(obviously)


Retailers and producers aren't getting rich, it's the packers.


Currently there is an effort underway to put an end to the unfair situation.

Feds are getting their noses into the matter.


I forget all the details, was reading about it last week.


https://www.agweb.com/news/livestoc...market-dynamics-and-packer-investigation




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Originally Posted by SamOlson
Originally Posted by wabigoon
A couple weeks back the packers were making a thousand dollars a head.




And this is the problem.


Retailers and producers aren't getting rich, it's the packers.


And there is an effort underway to put an end to the unfair situation.

Feds are getting their noses into the matter.


I forget all the details, was reading about it last week.


https://www.agweb.com/news/livestoc...market-dynamics-and-packer-investigation


Big packers are an organized crime conglomerate.

Govt. sticking their fingers into the free market pie is probably worse.

Just wait... Beef prices start going up on the producer end, and they'll open the floodgates of imported foreign meat. mad


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Around here even the local growers are booking slots for butchering in oct/nov 2023…. Just unreal. We do our own hogs but after we get settled in née place a walk in cooler is in our future. Have all the tools just need my own space. Wife even told me she was glad I booked a bison hunt this fall.. 🥴 almost thought it was a trap. But after the grocery trip yesterday with her I see why she does it. Everything food related is “higher than giraffe puzzy” as grandpa used to say.

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It's a mess, and I'm not even going to pretend to understand how it all 'works'.


I do think we were at the bottom of the cycle last year.


Hopefully....lol



I'm just thankful we caught a couple thunderstorms and barring an unforeseen wreck should have a decent dryland hay crop.


We are still holding cattle off of a couple small pastures here at home. Haystack is about gone though!

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And that's up about .10-.15 from where they sat most of the 12 months?


Richard would know, he sells fats.



I watch the feeder market, it's up a little as well.


They just had a big video contract sale last week, need to check out the results.


Just looked.


https://www.superiorlivestock.com/auction-results#reg-2


Feeder steers are about $200 more per head on this sale than last year. Back to where they were a couple years ago.

$1k for a freshly weaned 500-550lb steer calf for fall delivery is decent money.

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I just cleaned out my wallet, the bill for half a beef pushed a grand.

Beef is a premium food.


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Originally Posted by urbaneruralite
Finally found a local who knows how to finish off a beef. Won't be buying grocery store beef again.


Grained and let hang for how long? My grand pa supplied top beef to many of the finest restaurants around the South.

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Ribeyes were on sale here for $7.99/lb.

Choice grade, Safeway. Canadian.

I bought a few.


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Originally Posted by wabigoon
A couple weeks back the packers were making a thousand dollars a head.


How do you know that?
Not disagreeing, just wondering where one outside that industry would find that fact.


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I got some Choice NYstrip yesterday at the food lion for 7.99 lb.

Looked decent too.

I had inlaws over and didn’t want to break into my ribeye stash. They would only complain about the ribeye being ‘fatty’ and also they like everything cooked WELL. which is fuggin retarded my opinion.

Well done and ask for catsup every time.


Nope.
NY strips for them.


But still. I mighta/shoulda bought a few more.

They wanted $17.99 for ribeyes in the CeeBee Ragland
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I have not been in an actual grocery store since Feb 2020 so no idea.


High priced, local co-op grocery/gas station has ribeyes for $18-19/lb.

$5-6 burger.


Only meat I buy there is chicken or pork.


And $25 30 packs....





Okay, this is just us here locally, not looking to start any fights...



I'd sell a 1500/lb steer for $1500.
(to a friend...)


Not fancy finished mind you, this isn't going to be extra marbled up fatty, think leaner but still plenty juicy and flavorful.
(shush pervs...)

And no growth hormone weirdo chit, basically organic?


But...


Anyway, local to you buyers don't get mad if you're paying more $$$ on the hoof because I know you are.




1500 pound steer, $1500.

Processing, say $1k.


You're into 500lbs of meat for $2500.

$5/lb.



Wild guess but if you bought the meat in a store it might average $10 and cost $5k?



I did a quick 5 minute mesquite smoke on a top sirloin last night and it was one of the best steaks I've ever grilled.


Duck might have even been impressed.


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$4.50 a pound.


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Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
$4.50 a pound.


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Just got some beef from brother in law. Ended up just of $5.00 a lb. Pretty cheap and awful tasty.


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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.


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Originally Posted by slumlord
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Fine meat Conrad, fine lookin' meat....

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