The saddest sight in the world was seeing tens of thousands of cows carrying calves being sent to slaughter all over Texas this year because the drought made it impossible to feed them.
This will definitely show up in future beef prices, and more people will switch to chicken or pork, thus forcing those prices up as demand increases.
It wouldn’t be a bad idea to live somewhere where you can grow your own chickens or ducks or goats.
Agreed. I live in cattle raising area (there are several hundred cattle within a few hundred feet of my front door), and talking to the cattle raisers, a lot of herds had to be culled because of grain prices. One TX FReeper mentioned that many head are being sent to China to fill that demand. I expect beef prices to become nearly unobtainable one day soon.