Beef Prices

[bigguyt]

I will go vegan for a week, that will help with the worlds beef supply issue. Filets will be down to 3.99 a pound by next Tuesday.

[HDGristle]

Ask Trump to drop the 50% tariff on Brazilian beef imports while you're at it. Every penny helps. And they have been shouldering a good bit of the load for us while our herds have gotten smaller

[eyecu2]

Originally Posted by HDGristle

Ask Trump to drop the 50% tariff on Brazilian beef imports while you're at it. Every penny helps. And they have been shouldering a good bit of the load for us while our herds have gotten smaller

Don't forget that Australian meat- 10% on those imported goods. However- I find them to be a bit chewy and less tasty as our domestic or brazilian counterparts. Perhaps it's Roo meat anyway?!!

I'd ask an expert-but we don't have on here on the board on down under produce or meats- just on Tish James and DA Fanni Willis. LOLLING.

ahh mate ya know I'm only taking the mickey out of ya.

Perhaps our Cobber bludger- mate Trump has his namesake on some Aussie barbie meats from down at the billabong; a few bucks, boomers, or jacks or jills with a "T" on them?!? Nahh He'd have a Buckleys chance of makin himself a drongo on em. If they were made by his Mrs, they would taste like they were fresh out the dunny and made by a mongrel. ahh just being a Larrikin mate!

[HDGristle]

https://www.thecooldown.com/sustaina...evere-drought/

This requires a holistic view, not partisan rhetoric. This administration needs to address the root causes or, like citrus blight and avian flu, we'll see things get out of control and the supply shortage increase.

[Unique_Carpenter]

Come on HDG, Holistic?
You need to get into the dirt like we were.
Water and feed supplies are the core issues.

Although that article says multiple years to build a herd, we went from a couple dozen to about three thous in three years. OK we bought a bunch of weanlings and yearlings as part of that, but the bulls each had more than several girl friends and were very happy.

Btw, we didn't care about the consumer price as they will always buy (we could always sell to the butchers or auction). The only thing we worried about was the middleman purchase price, which we closely followed to time our sales of what we didn't want to keep.

That said, is the final consumer screwed on price increases? Yes, but that funded our retirement.

As for imported meat?
I'll pass on stuff that's been in a freezer for a several weeks or more.

The biggest issue is water and the over consumption of that by the human race. Politicians won't touch that issue.

[HDGristle]

Characterized by the belief that the parts of something are interconnected and can be explained only by reference to the whole.

Water, feed supplies, feed quality, land management, state and local regulations, relevant subsidies, U.S. demand, foreign demand, etc.

I've had my hands in the soil and shoveled plenty of real cow shit in my time, UG.

The point is that there are a plethora of issues to tackle and we haven't even gotten into logistics and transpo. Drought is a root cause, no doubt. Just as citrus blight is a root cause for our orange crop and why OJ is so high. But not the whole story.