Stupid Corn Crunch, making beef more expensive for everyone.
I love bacon, last night it didn't make the shopping cart...too expensive.
At least we ‘saved’ the delta smelt...
Wish me luck on the hunting. We’ve decided to replace as much meat as possible with wild game. Good for the health, too.
How stupid is our federal government to force human food and animal food to be converted to auto fuel and calling it a good thing. Defund the EPA January!!!!!!1
Cows don’t HAVE to eat corn. There is such a thing as grass.
Corn only searves to add cheap lbs. on.
This is a three week old article. Live cattle futures on the CME are about $3.50 off of their highs.
Ever in the forefront of doing something to make matters worse, the EPA issued a regulation about two weeks ago increasing the amount of ethanol, made of corn, in gasoline.
Government is always wrong.
But we will have to go after “Big Groceries” next. (And soon.)
Electricity will also double, cause we have to pay for all that new “free” solar and wind power.
But life will be much gooder cause the planet will be saved!
>>>The U.S. cattle herd in July was the smallest since 1973 and the number of breeding hogs last month was near the lowest ever, government data show.<<<
There’s the culprit.
The corn crop for this year is targeted to be at record, or near record levels, just like very year prior... and it’s not due to ethanol production either. Ethanol is food AND fuel.
Simple supply and demand - the article itself tells it: smaller herds = lower supply to market = increased prices.
same here. which is why using corn as a biodiesel fuel is WRONG! but of course the envirowackos ultimate dream is to starve all humans so I guess they are right on track.
I suspect the proposed 50% increase in ethanol added to our gasoline, from 10% to 15% of total fuel pumped, had some effect on this, and of course there’s that corn farmer vote and all those politically connected people who are depending on ethanol subsidies. The question is whether these factors has been contributing to today’s prices or whether the they are still to be felt.
I skipped Bacon too it jumped even at WalMart to over $5.00 a pound for the brand I like just a few months ago you could get it for $3.00.
Meats not the only thing that went up and remember zero is raising the ethanol content to 15% for gas so everything food related will continue to rise as a result.
A Quick Glance At Real World Inflation
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2615232/posts
Meat Market Corn Crunch Means Costliest Beef in Quarter Century
Stupid Corn Crunch, making beef more expensive for everyone.
No wonder the farmers in my area were so quick to harvest their corn crop. Wonder how much will wind up as government-subsidized ethanol. Meanwhile my monthly sponsorship costs for poor children via Compassion keeps rising - wonder why?
That’s what happens when you slaughter your beef, pork and chicken supplies, to keep prices up.
And dump tons of fruits and vegetables by the roadside to rot.
Now it’s worked it’s way through the pipeline, and the pipeline has less in it.
Done on purpose.
And there is the problem. Cows are not supposed to eat corn, they are supposed to eat grass.
Do yourself a favor and find a local steer farmer and get your beef there. You will NOT be sorry.
This is partly because somebody in the government had the “brilliant” idea the mandate ethanol content in our gasoline. Now, they want to increase the percentage from 10% to 15%, thereby ruining small engines and many of our cars.
Which “rocket scientist” thought that we should put food in our gas tanks?
Dopes.
Some things are worth splurging on. :)
It won’t affect Obama. Waygu beef cattle eat cake.
you know what this means.....kangaroo on the dollar menu
Thank the ethanol boondoggle for high beef and pork prices. The same corn that formerly went for feed is being turned into ethanol with government subsidies from corn to gas tank making it happen.