Now at least average folks can afford to drive to the grocery store to not be able to afford beef.
I read this article earlier. No where in the article does it say why the cost is going up. Corn is cheap, petroleum is cheap.
“I buy only the clearance beef..”
I bought some half price beef yesterday and left a couple packs for you:)
I was in Costco the other day and got fresh lobster claws for $9.90 a pound. The claws were very tasty.
I suppose this is a good thing based on what I’ve learned here about oil. Just think of all of the people in the beef industry that aren’t losing their jobs right now.
The article does not explain the cause. Drought and feed issues have been posited in the past, and maybe the same still holds true. Sure would like to see beef prices go the way of “earl” today.
fried balogna is a good sammich
$2.99 per lb on Tuesday at local Fresh Market
My Engle’s has a large photo poster above the office,
of a Engles circa 1950 with a sign that says,
“Ground Beef, 3lb. for $ 1.37”.
I hate to look at it.
I’ve also noticed that the price of rawhide chews for my dog have been rising.
I get a whole sirloin (10~12 lbs) at $3.80 per pound, then cut off about 6 pounds of grilling steak, the rest is ground up for hamburger.
Over 5 bucks at Publix
If I want 97% lean ground, it’s $7.23/pound at the local market. Ground chicken and turkey are less, but still around $4.00/pound.
Guess I’ll have to go vegetarian. Yuck!
Even considering ammo, tags and processing costs, the venison my family will eat for the next year is less than half that. That includes burger, steaks, roasts and tenderloins, too.
Of course if we add in the beer drank during deer season, the price jumps dramatically :-)
We don’t have a Walmart and the closest one hasn’t reduced their meats in years so we haven’t had ground beef forever until. In September, I purposefully stopped at an out of town Walmart and bought all the reduced packages they had. Stopped again last week but there was none. It’s bad when ground beef costs too much. For a while, there were sales on boneless beef ribs so I’d cook them like steak. Not anywhere close to kobe but better than nothing.
I paid $5.30/lb for ground sirloin yesterday.
Thank the corn trusts for this. Drink the alcohol; don’t burn it.
Is that more than soylent green?
Ranchers sold out most of their herds about two years ago due to drought. Cows are normally sold for consumption at two years so you should see a lot of new beef coming onto the market this next year and the price should moderate.
The prices for feed that had to be shipped in were unbelievable. People were giving horses away in order to get rid of the feed cost.
Now hay round bales are going for 50-65 per. Two years ago the price was 235 or a bit higher.