Farmers in the South are selling their cattle below their usual size because they cannot feed them. The pastures cows eat from are dying from record temperature and lack of rain and hay growers can't supply the demand because they can't grow hay.
It's a combination of things. But one of the main factor is inflation. One thing you have to remember is that inflation can be broken down to different sectors and while the over all inflation rate is 9.06%, the inflation rate is going to be different for different industries. So you can look at the overall inflation rate is a base line, due to it being the same, higher or lower in a given economic sector. For example the current inflation rate in the food sector is 10.4%. It is the highest level it has been at since February of 1981 and it also has been on the biggest 12 month streak of inflation since the last inflation period that ended in April 1979.
Also you want to keep an eye on the current price of commodities. Because a market price increases in those will instantly raise or lower the price of a given good. For example the price of oil, hay and other commodities will increase the price of something like beef. Simply because a higher oil market price will make it more expensive it is to transport something like beef. Also the higher market price for hay, the more expensive it is to feed cows.
In a lot of ways commodities spiderweb into everything. We only see the end price of something on the price tag at a given store. But knowing the market price of commodities and what commodities a given industry uses will give you a better picture of what something coasts as much as it does.
NO. They are a result of high fuel prices, as shipping beef requires significant supplies fuel, and the oddly high number of breakdowns and accidents at meat packing plants, which has a good many people wondering if those were really accidents at all. Especially when the "Woke" (sic) and the elites appear to be pushing non-meat products.
Maybe "Soylent Green" was not a dystopian movie based upon a dystopian short story, but a blueprint for what the Global Elites want:
Last year ranchers were slaughtering animals due to covid, it was predicted higher prices would come because lower demand due to meat plants shutting down, meant animals could not be sold and ranchers couldn't sit on them. To cut costs means killing them. I know ranchers here that did just that, couldn't find a buyer when Tyson and others stopped buying so to avoid bankruptcy they cut their losses. Now that they are buying again after the plants opened, less sellers so they have to pay more. Of course throw in the Biden Inflation and its even worse.
The issue with climate change is that while we do have an impact on this planet, it's not as great as science or the gov would have us believe. Volcanos cause way more pollution than we will ever know and we actually slowed the next ice age down tremendously because of our carbon footprint. Does that mean that we should all litter and treat this planet like a garbage? No! As far as not being able to feed cattle or other livestock properly due to climate change, that's something we will have to ask science. Cheers 🥂
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i think people use climate change due to poor excuses... sometimes it's bad leadership sabotage or in the case of CA fire forests the fact newsome didn't bother to clean up the forests not climate change... we've always faced extreme weather always it's never really stopped.
Cows eat more than hay and grass. Sure some farmers will grow their own silage to add to the diet of the cows but cost of meat going up is more because of the federal government. Everything’s gone up. Meat where I am is finally starting to sort of level out, vegetables are still stupid expensive, dairy has gone up.
More than enough farmers have pointed out the issues created by the Federal Government that make doing their job difficult, from the high energy prices caused by limiting development to supply change issues caused by regulations and trade issue.
I'm going to let everyone in on a secret I haul cattle so get ready there's no shortage in beef in fact they have so much sitting in freezers around the country it's crazy part of the cost if fuel for the trucks and tractors part of it is hay and the rest of the feed cost and part of it is drought however hay farms typically irrigate so that's not a big problem except the fuel to run it parts cost more and only so much can be grown at a time to feed with it's all a game of greed
The WEF wants you to own nothing and be happy, leadership is complicit in this arrangement with central bankers. They want you to eat bugs. Then they will feel truly "elite" and they'll still be eating ribeye, by the way. Enjoy your mealworms.
Yea, there's been droughts for a few years in a number of prime cattle ranching places and general crop failures all over the world driving up the cost of grain.
With feed prices so high, and inflation as it is the price has skyrocketed.
I'd suggest learning about aquaponics and raising your own shrimp or tilapia. Food prices aren't going down anytime in the forseeable future.
Well if everyone would eat vegan and produce their own food then we'd be fine. But cuz y'all wanna hang around on the corner at the fancy cafe uploading 100 pictures of your fancy food using 13 filters...
You can't come to conclusions based on a single year you need to examine trends across several disciplines over a long period. Climate change will affect prices but at the moment things like fuel prices will be hitting farmers.
If the government backed off and literally did nothing, US agriculture will be better off than any subsidy or regulation anyone could ever possibly imagine
They are rising because the cost of feed grain is rising rapidly (and yes, this is partly due to the war in Ukrain) but mostly because several beef processing plants have recently "mysteriously" burned down, while thousands of cows have "mysteriously" dropped dead simultaniously. That, and, oh yeah, Biden and the Green Deal Dims are trying to drive the fossil fuel industry into the toilet!
It is costing more to raise cattle.
Fuel is way up, fertilizer, seed, herbicide, pesticides, you name it has gone out of site, more than doubled in most cases.
Not to mention the cost of transportation and processing costs.
You're confused. Hay and cattle feed can be imported faster and cheaper than grown. The beef problem is more down to supply- than demand. American farms are losing money as Trump fucked most of the market up.
The weather is fine and there has been lots of rain so climate is not the reason. Most likely, it is the government since everything the government does is harmful.
Yes but not much, Climate change can affect growing feed for livestock and the lack of rains and water will make beef prices raising rapidly, importing beef or feed for livestock is a solution with bad side effects.
They are feeding them what they need. Due to the faked hyped up inflation cause by oil companies for their corporate greed
Its all part of the design to bankrupt and collapse all of North America
Could very well be. Might be a high chance prices are being artificially inflated to encourage others to not use as much beef, because cattle are a high producer of methane, damaging the environment.
It is a result of higher prices for everything else. The cattlemen have to raise the price of beef to cover their larger than normal overhead.
The weather story is a load of bs. California cows have lived in 115+ temps with drout for at least 4 decades that I am personally aware of.
Beef is still normal priced in France not more expensive there's also lots of sales here making it cheap.
No. High prices result mostly because market speculation
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