The price of seed is up, fertilizer is up ~400%, etc. If I were a farmer I would sell off a bunch of beef, then hold on to some breeders. Buying feed seems like it is going to get really expensive.

I expect would the price of beef to stabilize or maybe drop, then go sky high ~October-ish.

Anyone have any thoughts? Hopefully someone in the business.

Seems like we need to fill up our freezers.

1 ton of beef pellets 14% protein is 330$ saturday Market steer price is way up and everything else matches

I saw where one of the u pick farm places posted that they had 2 steers processed and were selling ground beef for $7 a pound. People we’re buying it and praising it. I don’t know what to say at that price.

I just got a 400 lb. Hanging weight side of beef, cut, processed,, wrapped and hard frozen for $2.00 per pound. It's from our family's small beef operation over in MS. Only reason it was so cheap. Freezer full. Gotta another coming in December probably. Gotta stay in good standing with the cousins!

Same. Picked up a little over a 500# side last week. Almost finished doing the cutting myself, just the chuck left to go through.

We are set for 2022 but can only hope 2023 isn’t insane. If it is we will just eat less beef and more deer/fish/duck/squirrel etc.

Garden is getting going and the canners will be running hard this summer.

Just met a guy in Lowndesboro in the past few months and just today picked up my order of a 1/4 @ ~$4.50/lb. First time doing this but had been recommended by several I know. Pretty good mix of stuff for $525.

Paid $27 for a 3.34 pound chunk roast Friday.

The deer meat in my freezer is looking better every day!

We'll be eating Hamburger Helper at my house when only the rich folks can afford the beef.

Until you price it per pound 😂😂.

just picked a grain fed 1/2 steer 2weeks ago from a farmer over in Enterprise. Paid $1800 for 275 pounds of meat aged 21days and custom cut and vacuumed packed and hard frozen. Works out to around $6.50 a pound for finished product.
This is the 4th time i have ordered from him.I will never buy beef from a store again!

I can't fit anymore in my freezer right now...I'm thinking about killing a young bull towards the end of the year just haven't made up my mind...if they start selling for $2 a pound I may just stick with deer n sell my bulls lol

The prices are being controlled by a consolidated processing market. 85% of domestic beef is being cut by 4 processors. They drive the price, not the farmers/ranchers. Talk to those selling their cattle and see how their reimbursement is going.

Also, the country of origin labeling is not truthful on a lot of "American" beef". If the cutting is modified in any way in America, you can label it as American beef. Completely phucked up system.

The small independents are the only way to go.

I just got a whole lamb, haven't bought a beef for many years.

I don’t know if that many farmers/ranchers are going to sell off a bunch of cattle just cause feed prices are high. Even if some folks start cutting back numbers it wouldn’t have an effect till further out, they’re gonna be between one and two when they get processed. That being said, I would expect the price of beef to go up in the store. But it’ll be mostly markup from the in between folks and higher trucking expenses.

That price isn't going to fluctuate with inflation though. It will be the same quantity and the price will stay the same no matter what Biden does to us.

It'll be at whatever the processor wants to sell it at to the warehouses...the stores can do whatever they want but the competition keeps them in line...the farmers get screwed everytime tho...I've been on both ends of the spectrum...it's like Tikka said above

Out of state license, club fees, and fuel costs were why I got out of a deer lease in Georgia and started hunting close to home. Got permission to hunt some small parcels and I'm paying less than $2 a pound for a standard cut, vacuum packed deer at my processor. We do buy chicken and pork, but haven't bought beef in years.

Your profit is in the pasture when it comes to growing cattle. You’ll bury your self alive trying to keep them going on supplemental feed. Gotta make hay while the sun shines and in today’s climate you better have established enough acreage(while praying for rain) to hold them for a while.

We are selling quarter beef at $4.50 hanging weight and are sold out till June. Our finishing feed has gone from $264 a ton to $309 a ton in the past 6 months. Fertilizer is insane, fuel is way up and my hay prices will be higher this year too. I'm holding at $4.50lb for now, hoping this crap simmers down. I've seen some folks selling above $5.00lb hanging weight, I hope fuel and feed prices don't drive me that high.

Pastures just coming back in, doubt anyone will sell now. Packer always makes the most profit.

like hundreds per pound