Quality beef prices have already gone through the roof. Expect them to rise.
Cattle prices are the lowest in six or so years.
just at Safeway...bought 5 packages of hamburger and a London broil...under $17 for all....they discount their soon to be exp meats up to 50% plus they had a bogo sale on some of their beef.....stock up while you can....
My brother-in-law raises cattle. He is a small producer- only about 30-60 head per year. He doesn't expect to make a living off the money he gets, but he does expect to at least break even. Just last week, he told me that if he sold his cattle now, he would lose money. He does not understand why the price at the supermarket is so high and the price at the hoof is so low. He told me that he has never seen such a discrepancy between the two.
He also told me that there has been a push for years to get the small producers out of the market- raising regulations. He is looking at taking subscriptions (a person pays x dollars for 1/4 of a cow to be slaughtered at a certain date) to see if that would work.