Old time saying is the cure for high prices are high prices. The cattlemen are just being set up in 2025 for the royal screwing they will get in 2026 as the packers find a way to screw them again just like they did in 2015 and 2016 after record profits the cattlemen had in 2014. I have played this game many times and it ends the same every time. The cattlemen gets screwed the packer get stronger.
I haven’t followed beef prices closely as I wasn’t a farmer, but now as we set up our own small farm, I’m following my roots in horticulture to begin with market gardening/vegetables, and that requires getting into chicken production as well for their manure/compost. I did want to buy a spring calf that is considered raising and butchering for our own meat, but even that requires $2,500-$3,000…. If I put that same money into a Cornish cross meat bird I’d have a flock of 750 and more meat than I could handle.
The economics need to balance back out, consumers are screwed this year, farmers are screwed next year… the slaughter houses and middle men always win. We need a more fair and reliable farmer direct to consumer market for farmers and consumers to both benefit.
Old time saying is the cure for high prices are high prices. The cattlemen are just being set up in 2025 for the royal screwing they will get in 2026 as the packers find a way to screw them again just like they did in 2015 and 2016 after record profits the cattlemen had in 2014. I have played this game many times and it ends the same every time. The cattlemen gets screwed the packer get stronger.
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I haven’t followed beef prices closely as I wasn’t a farmer, but now as we set up our own small farm, I’m following my roots in horticulture to begin with market gardening/vegetables, and that requires getting into chicken production as well for their manure/compost. I did want to buy a spring calf that is considered raising and butchering for our own meat, but even that requires $2,500-$3,000…. If I put that same money into a Cornish cross meat bird I’d have a flock of 750 and more meat than I could handle.
The economics need to balance back out, consumers are screwed this year, farmers are screwed next year… the slaughter houses and middle men always win. We need a more fair and reliable farmer direct to consumer market for farmers and consumers to both benefit.