Meat Prices

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

Anyone noticing meat prices going up in your areas? I've seen a few items change a bit, but went to look at getting a brisket for this weekend and was shocked. We're up at $6/pound for a full brisket at our grocery store. I'm going to look around at other places, but that is a big jump. Last time I got a whole brisket, it was around half that.

jgriffith · Posted: May 22, 2014 9:01 am Post subject:

Obviously the result of fear of a beef shortage due to the governments intervention in private land "owners" and ranchers "rights"

Its BS, you have always had a "contract" to purchase a brisket for less than $6/lb and now the store thinks they can arbitrarily raise the price!

goofyboy · Posted: May 22, 2014 9:09 am Post subject:

is that Prime or something of better quality?

I think I saw $2.95 a pound around here.

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

CAB Choice.

STPHNSN23 · Guest

beef prices will rise because of the exceptionally harsh winter.

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

I'm sure drought conditions are going to play into it, as well. I would expect to see a rise, but this was a huge jump. Like I said, last time I bought a brisket it was around $3/pound. Going up to $4-4.50 seems like a reasonable rise for market conditions, but up to $6 seemed odd.

fish6942 · Addict Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 603

We always buy in bulk but the prices have not changed much over the past few years.

We just purchased half a beef from a local farmer. Between the cost of the critter and processing at the local shop it came out to $2.57/lb for just about 300 pounds. This is all steaks, roasts, ribs and (extra lean) ground beef - no organs.

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

Drought + cold winter. Lots of items are going to go up due to these....

jryoung · Ladies Man Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 7664 City: Man Jose

Supply, low, stressed due to harsh winter and drought.
Demand, high, holiday weekend that focuses on meat and fire instead of dead soldiers.

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

Sounds good fish. We may start doing that in the next couple years. How do you have it wrapped? I assume you store it in a chest or upright freezer at home?

So, how much of a price increase are y'all seeing in your areas?

jryoung · Ladies Man Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 7664 City: Man Jose

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

LOL. Yup.

I did manage to find a brisket for $3.99 a pound at a butcher/processor. I talked to them more in depth about bulk meat purchases, as well.

fish, are you saying you got 300 pounds of "take home" meat for the $2.57/pound amount?

fish6942 · Addict Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 603

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

OK, cool. That's a good price.

This place I talked to charges $3.49/pound for a side of beef at a typical weight of 300#. That converts to about 180# of meat that you take home, after processing.

jjaszkow · Posted: May 23, 2014 5:47 am Post subject:

Most of the places around here are under $3.00 a lb for a side of beef with upwards of 200# -250# take home (~200# off of a 300# side).

Nor*Cal · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9479 City: Sac

Meat is murder.

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

and it's tasty, too.

BrentC5Z · Posted: May 23, 2014 3:53 pm Post subject:

I'll try to be neutral here. We are currently at about 220 head of cattle and climbing slowly (most spring calves have dropped). Prices are really high and very beneficial to beef ranchers. The challenge is extreme drought conditions in the larges cattle raising areas of the country (KS OK TX) last week we actually applied for a drought aid the government is offering. It's similar to what Australia has done. Luckily, many ranchers have their ponds in areas that collect the most rainfall and have solid bases to keep it. Hay obviously faces the same issue but doesn't benefit from low elevation ponds. So, farmers who keep herds through the winter have been paying a premium feeding. Hobby ranchers (as we call them) dump their cattle in the fall to avoid the winter costs which drives the price down, but have the opposite on us in the spring (start of grilling season) when they re enter the market.

http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdamobile?navid=DISASTER_ASSISTANCE

As an example for you guys, last week 4 new calves dropped which equates to around $4,500 by fall for us.

Aubs · Motorboat Queen Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9167

Bf is the Exec Chef at a restaurant. Price of beef is realllllyyy hurting his #'s. Might have to change menu price soon...

flixmaster · Site Owner Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 7488

All this talk of expensive meat prices.....makes me want to smoke a brisket this weekend...

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

Sounds like a great idea flixmaster.

Brent, we need to talk about my family buying a cow. Wink

eeven73 · Posted: May 25, 2014 7:58 am Post subject:

Current beef prices have less to do with this winters drought than $7 corn, harsh winter, 2 years ago, China's protein consumption, institutional investors chasing returns in commodities.

BrentC5Z · Posted: May 25, 2014 9:25 am Post subject:

Okie, we tend to take them to auction in quantity. I'm not against it, you'd just have to arrange transport, butchering, etc for a single. You'll probably find the grocery store is worth the price Smile

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Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

The meat place I just bought from slaughters and processes, so we would just need to arrange price and transport.

goofyboy · Posted: May 27, 2014 6:42 am Post subject:

paid $3 a pound for my brisket and $2.50 a pound for the pork butt.

churchy · Posted: May 30, 2014 9:41 am Post subject:

Okie Boarder, I found your answer... blame Arby's
http://www.tmbbq.com/brisketisback/

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

Interesting.