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re: White House Advisers Tasked with Finding Way to Lower Soaring Beef Prices
Posted on 12/8/25 at 8:30 pm to LemmyLives
Posted on 12/8/25 at 8:30 pm to LemmyLives
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Lazy. Try the price of diesel, fertilizer for feed, etc.
Until the price of diesel comes down like gas did food prices will stay high. Cows are fed grain which is grown by farmers using alot of diesel. The grain growers seed, fertilizer, transportations costs etc. are tied to fuel costs.
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Posted on 12/8/25 at 8:32 pm to ragincajun03
All I know is that there used to always be cows on the levee and there are no longer any cows on the levee.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 8:35 pm to fightin tigers
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Soaring prices and the company poised to capitalize on that is shutting down a facility.
Not enough feeder calves for the feedlots to supply the meat packing plants. Normally we would get 100,000 a month from Mexico but they have a screw worm epidemic.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 11:13 pm to ragincajun03
I would rather pay more for American beef than eat gaucho burgers.
Posted on 12/9/25 at 10:42 am to GEAUXLPOST
Biotechnology killed the small seed companies and was the root cause of most of the industry consolidation.
Farmers adopted Roundup ready and BT traited seed enmasse because it lowered risk (BT), increased efficiency and lowered costs. One man on a self propelled sprayer could spray and keep clean thousands of acres that before took multiple people on tractors with 8 row cultivators and layby rigs. Spraying went from mixing cocktails of multiple herbicides to just roundup. In addition, BT reduced cotton insecticide use tremendously.
Independent seed companies were forced due to lack of demand for their conventional varieties to do one of two things
1) sell or 2) purchase biotech lines from Monsanto or 3) license the technology and integrate it into their existing lines (expensive). Most chose 2 or 3 at first before deciding the margins were too thin to compete with the giants and closing or selling out.
As far a chemical? For years, in the row crop industry the vast majority of herbicides sold was roundup/glyphosate. A University of Arkansas weed scientist said “The best thing to add to Roundup is more Roundup. Ag chem companies consolidated to survive. If not for Roundup resistant weeds and a surge in fungicide use for plant health, the industry would be even more consolidated today.
A long post to say it sucks, but farmers ultimately did it to themselves due to their desire to increase efficiency and reduce production costs.
Farmers adopted Roundup ready and BT traited seed enmasse because it lowered risk (BT), increased efficiency and lowered costs. One man on a self propelled sprayer could spray and keep clean thousands of acres that before took multiple people on tractors with 8 row cultivators and layby rigs. Spraying went from mixing cocktails of multiple herbicides to just roundup. In addition, BT reduced cotton insecticide use tremendously.
Independent seed companies were forced due to lack of demand for their conventional varieties to do one of two things
1) sell or 2) purchase biotech lines from Monsanto or 3) license the technology and integrate it into their existing lines (expensive). Most chose 2 or 3 at first before deciding the margins were too thin to compete with the giants and closing or selling out.
As far a chemical? For years, in the row crop industry the vast majority of herbicides sold was roundup/glyphosate. A University of Arkansas weed scientist said “The best thing to add to Roundup is more Roundup. Ag chem companies consolidated to survive. If not for Roundup resistant weeds and a surge in fungicide use for plant health, the industry would be even more consolidated today.
A long post to say it sucks, but farmers ultimately did it to themselves due to their desire to increase efficiency and reduce production costs.
Posted on 12/9/25 at 11:01 am to ragincajun03
Those dim bulbs couldn’t find an elephant in a laundry room
Posted on 12/9/25 at 11:44 am to ragincajun03
The green grifters are trying to force us to stop eating beef. The prices were manipulated down, through calculated non-production. Now, they are pretending that Argentinian beef is horrible, and only fit fo rground meat. Argentina has some of the best beef in existence. It mostly does not have all of the steroids, RNA bullshite, and vaccines. It is pure and tasty.
Posted on 12/9/25 at 1:35 pm to ragincajun03
We love it when politicians interfere in the free market, don’t we folks?
Posted on 12/12/25 at 2:04 am to ragincajun03
It’s the middlemen stupid !
Posted on 12/12/25 at 4:16 am to ragincajun03
Eat more pork.
Posted on 12/12/25 at 4:57 am to GREENHEAD22
It is simple …… if you want cheaper food, produce your own. Everyone can do it
Posted on 12/12/25 at 7:10 am to ragincajun03
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Are we eating crawfish instead of steak this Spring?
Might have to.
Rouses is advertising 17 dollar a pound whole ribeyes as a sale. Hate to see what the non sale price is or for individual ribeye cut steaks.
Posted on 12/12/25 at 7:22 am to ragincajun03
My butcher claims cattle numbers went way down 5 years ago and it’ll be 5 more years to catch up
Posted on 12/12/25 at 7:28 am to Bowstring1
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It is simple …… if you want cheaper food, produce your own. Everyone can do it
You have a milk cow and feeder calf in your backyard?
I well remember when my parents bought a half a cow from a butcher near Lake Charles. The flavor wasn't bad but it was like chewing the leather sole of a shoe. Mom got mad when my sister and I called it "tough meat" while eating chicken fried steak. After that my parents always bought from the father of an uncle near Laffy. He fattened the calves with corn he grew.
Posted on 12/12/25 at 7:28 am to SoDakHawk
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Anti-trust laws are on the books for a reason. Want lower prices? Create more competition. Break up Tyson and the rest of the Big 4 packers (JBS, Cargill, National). They control and are strangling the market to their benefit.
Make it easier for local butchers and slaughterhouses to operate. Decentralize the monopolies. More power to the proletariat
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