Expert issues warning, beef set to see skyrocketing prices: 'We're going to see a notable further increase

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Climate-driven stress on food systems is hitting Americans in their grocery carts, again. This time, ground beef prices have jumped 10.3% since June 2024, meaning they're topping $6 per pound, according to a Time report.

Consumers are continuing to buy beef, but issues with supply, stress on producers, and extreme weather are disrupting the market.

The price of ground beef is exceeding $6 per pound, with steak up 12.4% over the same period, according to the report. This is similar to the recent steep rise in egg prices due to bird influenza outbreaks on farms.

Contributing to rising costs, herd sizes are the lowest they've been in almost 75 years, according to Farm Policy News, and it's driven by drought and high feeding costs. Food economist David Ortega told Time his research estimates these pressures could keep prices elevated for up to four years.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/expert-issues-warning-on-next-american-food-set-to-see-skyrocketing-prices-we-re-going-to-see-a-notable-further-increase/ar-AA1L84Qj

More for your hamberders Donny.

[BoRaGard]

1. "Ha ha. Suckers and Losers. Ha ha." - G.O.P.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Kiddoes, it has already happened.

$18 for a pound of deli roastv beef.

[Torchlight]

3. A magat will assert lower beef prices in their area

just after they sign a second mortgage to afford the grill party planned over the labor day weekend.

[MrWowWow]

4. Great! Maybe the Amazon Will Be Able to Recover Now!

McDonalds won't be paying to clearcut and burn it for their burger business. Nice!
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[doc03]

6. We have that now, just came from Walmart

Ribeye steak $20.49 a pound. Kroger was $19.99 last week.
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[democratsruletheday]

7. Had a ribeye yesterday with my Dad and son....

hadn't ate one in probably 10 years or so. My Dad has stage 4 prostate cancer and we didn't wanna cheap out so we bought 4 good sized Ribeyes for the occasion: came to $50. I've been a huge (red) meat eater my whole life but NO more folks. This is insane. My country meat market still has ground chuck for $4/lb when bought in a bulk 10lb pack. I buy two of them for $80 total and that lasts us a couple months. (3 adults in our household)

If need be we'll switch full time to being vegans. I don't wanna do it but I need to lose weight any way so let the chips fall where they may. I hate the Orange Stain's GUTS but this has all been headed straight to hell for a long time and now he's just making it worse of course.

[Midnight Writer]

8. Ribeye here at 24.99 per pound. Hamburger usually 6-7 dollars.

I used to enjoy an occasional steak, and ribeye is my favorite. But I am afraid it will be a very rare occasion for me to have a ribeye in the future.

Worse yet, the steaks I am seeing in the store are not high quality. Often browning in color, with huge lips of fat surrounding them.

We are watching the intentional destruction of our middle class.

The very wealthy have made the decision to kill the goose that lays their golden eggs that made them rich.

[bif]

9. Good thing I don't eat meat.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

10. Last week at the store, I bought 4 hamburger patties for $10.46.

I seldom eat beef anymore. I cannot remember when I had a steak last or Prime rib medium rare.

The Christmas Prime Rib will be over $200 I am for sure. It's the only time I buy it. Last year it was $17.99 per pound. This year at least $25 per pound at Costco.

[no_hypocrisy]

11. "Let them eat eggs . . . "

[BannonsLiver]

12. This makes perfect sense and is undoubtedly true.

HOWEVER in my view the narrative should be that it’s Trump’s fault. Nobody in the media or elsewhere GAF about the influence of bird flu on egg prices last year. They all blamed it on Biden. What’s good for the goose…

[LeftInTX]

13. It's the screwworm.

Secretary Rollins Takes Decisive Action and Shuts Down U.S. Southern Border Ports to Livestock Trade Due to Further Northward Spread of New World Screwworm in Mexico
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-announcements/secretary-rollins-takes-decisive-action-shuts-down-us-southern-border

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/cattle/ticks/screwworm

[NickB79]

16. Also the 50% Brazilian tariffs

We get 15% of our beef from Brazil.

[Prairie Gates]

18. Decisive action, was it?

[LeftInTX]

21. They are halting livestock etc.

Screwworm can be a serious issue. Until they get more sterile flies, I don't know. I often source the USDA for things like this. Mainly because the media adds stuff to their stories. I find the USDA is more "to the point".

They shutdown livestock trade for awhile in 2024 due to screwworm. This year, it's been open and shut. In June, they reopened the ports and then in July the shut them down due to an increase in movement. Not everything is totally incompetent. There are scientists working at USDA.

(Washington, D.C., July 9, 2025)- Yesterday, Mexico’s National Service of Agro-Alimentary Health, Safety, and Quality (SENASICA) reported a new case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in Ixhuatlan de Madero, Veracruz in Mexico, which is approximately 160 miles northward of the current sterile fly dispersal grid, on the eastern side of the country and 370 miles south of the U.S./Mexico border. This new northward detection comes approximately two months after northern detections were reported in Oaxaca and Veracruz, less than 700 miles away from the U.S. border, which triggered the closure of our ports to Mexican cattle, bison, and horses on May 11, 2025.

A woman traveled out of the country and came back with a screwworm infection. I had no idea they could infect humans! I thought it was a livestock thing.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/25/nx-s1-5515487/new-world-screwworm-us-human-case

[Initech]

14. Can we please admit that the GOP has gone off the fucking rails and they need to be destroyed?

[NickB79]

15. Walmart had 1-lb tubes of ground meat for $3.97 the other day

Next to the ground beef that was $6.

Upon closer inspection, they were a beef/pork mix, not pure beef.

Still bought a bunch because I use ground pork too, but it seemed deceptive.

[flvegan]

20. "ground meat"

Watch your labels*, people! ICE has to do SOMETHING with the bodies.


*Not that these will continue to be accurate, what with the ongoing/forthcoming "regulations" under the GOP.

[Prairie Gates]

17. Sucks for people who eat a lot of beef

[JCMach1]

19. Meat in general... Not just beef

This is very different from recessions I remember from childhood where there was always something inexpensive to get by with.

Literally may have to dig up the back yard and plant like crazy next spring.