U.S. meat prices may rise to records this summer after farmers reduced hog and cattle herds to the smallest sizes in decades, the result of surging feed costs linked to demands for more ethanol.
Wholesale pork jumped as much as 25 percent this month to 90.68 cents a pound last week, the highest since August 2008, U.S. Department of Agriculture data show. Beef climbed 22 percent this year to $1.6896 a pound on April 23, the most expensive since July 2008. Chicken’s gain in March was the most in 20 months.
Demand for pork chops, steaks and chicken breasts is rising as the economy improves, backyard barbecues resume and China and Russia allow more U.S. imports. Domestic supplies may drop to a 13-year low because of culls to stem losses caused by corn prices that doubled after former President George W. Bush set targets to increase ethanol use.
“Ethanol-induced prices in meat are just now getting to the marketplace,” said Steve Meyer, the president of Paragon Economics, a meat industry consultant in Des Moines, Iowa. “Consumers are going to see the highest prices they’ve ever paid in meat and poultry because of the decisions made to make corn into ethanol.”
I'm not worry. I'm a plant eater. LOL.
ReplyDeleteMY DEAR VEGGIE EATER, HAVE YOU PRICED FRUITS AND VEGGIES AT THE STORE? I THINK THAT THEY ARE HIRING THE LAYED-OFF AUTO WORKERS TO PICK'EM!
ReplyDeleteYOU TOO, "ARE SO SCREWED"!!
Ethanol is an inefficient fuel and, when added to gasoline, significantly REDUCES the fuel mileage. So.. WFT????
ReplyDeletemore of george bushs shock and awe
ReplyDeletelook at those prices!
he has definetly left a legacey
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ReplyDelete9:41 What an educated comment.Take your hate to some other board.
ReplyDeletewhat did he say... oh censorship here.. the blogger is no better than a communist power hungry controling eletis like that in china. Censor me u dipshit!
ReplyDelete"As the economy improves" ha ha ha, this article is totally BS. Prices will go up because of inflation and govt regulations, not because of demand.
ReplyDeleteThe sheeple believe anything their tv's tell them or what they read in their propaganda newspapers or magazines.
Now go back to watching your sports show and SHUT-UP!
Demand for pork chops, steaks and chicken breasts is rising as the economy improves, backyard barbecues resume and China and Russia allow more U.S. imports.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone else laugh at this as hard as I did? The economy's recovering. People are gleefully BBQing again, and Russia and China are buying the only thing we produce.....bombs. Gee, I wonder what's going to happen to the price of seafood considering the huge die-off we are about to experience.
STARVE BABY STARVE, SARAH THE FAILURE SAYS AND MCSAME THE TRAITOR CAN SK IT TOO
ReplyDeleteThis meat fiasco is Obama's Katrina. The answer to this monumental meat crisis is to nuke all the CAFOs. I'm a naval engineer and I'm telling you, it's the only thing that will save us.
ReplyDelete10 billion barrels of oil.
ReplyDeleteThat's what the reserve BP tapped is.
If the pipe breaks open the flow will be as much as 50,000 barrels a day.
there's 42 gallons to the barrel of oil.
The Governor of Louisiana said something about he's planning on a spill of 150,000 barrels.
Is anyone else noticing that they have no way to shut this thing off?
I read that basically the entire 10 billion gallons of oil in the reservoir will have to come out because they have no way of turning it off.
I get that 10 billion divided by 50 thousand is 200,000. It would take 200,000 days for all the oil to flow out at 50,000 barrels a day.
That's 547.9 years.
Okay. Real world worst case scenario they get it stopped in 3 months because they drill a second well and plug the first one from the second.
That's 90 days of flow at 50,000 barrels a day would be 4.5 million barrels of oil.
The exxon valdex held 1.26 million barrels of oil of which only a fraction leaked out, about 100,000 barrels.
The flow is already much higher than 5000 gallons a day that they first said. The slick tripled in size in 2 days. The flow now could be as high as 20,000 barrels a day.
If the two choke points in the riser pipe break it'll go to 50,000 barrels a day.
THIS IS HALIBURTONS AND CHENEY AND BUSH KATRINA AS HALIBURTON BUILT THIS CRAP
ReplyDeleteIf you go to this site:
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And then click on the second thumbnail down on the left
the one with the following data:
Mode FR/Level0/PDHS-K
Orbit 42722
Date 02-MAY-2010
Time 16:08:17
First 36.9N 85.7W
Last 25.8N 88.8W
This is an overpass image of the gulf from this morning.
Click on the button 'JPG Hi-Res' to download the image.
Looks like the spill grew by going south in the gulf towards the center.
Looks pretty big now.
we dont mind dum cooments
ReplyDeletegod knows i post alot
but truthful
its no hate
ts common sense
im glad he pulls posts he deems hatefull
i love this sight
and want it to stay up
so please please keep pulling the
garbage off
i for one had never had a post pulled
and said some pretty truthfull stuff
so whatever you said you must be a shill or a idiot
thanks for this webpage guy and all you do
oh yea everyone bbq ing
ReplyDeletehave driven up the price of gold also
driving around with bling around your neck gettin chicken.
its all self explained
that also will push up the price of paper
towels.
gee what would we do without all this useless info,
we are screwed
china and russia want all our chicken
buwahahhahaahahah
Gosh I hope we can still have BBQed chicken at camp fema? And what about the twice weekly steak diners as promised?
ReplyDeleteOMG!
Chuckles the clown eats only birthday cake, so I am gonna be just fine and jimminy dandy! No high priced corn fed beef for me!
ReplyDeleteThis is REAL inflation. The kind your TV won't yak about.
ReplyDeleteif you notice, prices are up and the quantity in the bag, box or can is getting smaller, that is called inflation and I am noticing it everywhere
ReplyDeleteThe poster from Chantilly is CIA or NSA....but which poster is it?
ReplyDeleteWill not impact Obongo at the regular white house Wed night BBQ & concert so why does anyone really care? As long as dear leader has the good stuff we can all be happy..
ReplyDeleteLet the people eat soylent green.
ReplyDeletesarah the quitter failure says starve baby starve
ReplyDeleteNew flash from the Pres, "You alls can eat dirt cause Michelle, Nancy, Harry and me will dine 5 star and toast the night away with Cristal. Why we even flush the toilets with the stuff."
ReplyDeleteThanks suckers and enjoy your dirt soup.
Dogs and cats will start to mysteriously disappear from neighborhoods. Not just the Vietnamese this time.
ReplyDeleteThink Muchelle has enough in the phony garden of "hers" to even feed the dog? How many aids does she have pulling weeds out?
ReplyDeleteYA THINK SARAH THE QUITTER IS EATING OILY SHARK TONIGHT, DRILL BABY DRILL HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
ReplyDeleteWho cares anymore!, as long as "Uncle Ben" says theres "NO Inflation", there's NO Inflation, smirks
ReplyDeleteHe and the rest of the Boooya stock boys and the PIMCO bond baby's are all for Ben's BS and hope he never raises the rates, no matter how high prices go for the "normal" person that has to buy food, pay for high priced gas, elec bills, and meds.
SARAH THE QUITTER makes more $$ in one day than you losers make all year combined.
ReplyDeleteOk, whatever 422 Just continue being a keyboard gutter snipe and taking cheap shots at a woman you coward.
ReplyDeleteSounds like your jealous..
It is Crack head night I see. Let's write something about the article folks.
ReplyDeleteI have a family member that is a huge investor in Ethanol. I wonder if he will donate a cow to my freezer.
Canning and dehydrating food is the answer. I am going to the store tomorrow to buy a boat load of chicken and beef to can. I don't freeze because of the potential for a power outage is high.
ReplyDeletePretty soon people will be eating weeds and insects in order to avoid starvation.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to go make up a fake life on myspace now and tell everyone I make 100,000$ a year.
ReplyDeleteAnyone ever notice that on myspace? Everyone claims to make that much yet they can't even spell basic words...
I'm so sick of the lies in this world.
This article is so true.
ReplyDeleteOn Friday I went to Sams Club to purchase some steaks to grill this weekend with some friends- I had to pay 32.00 for a pack of 4 strip steaks! I would have put them back but I had already promised steaks. That's the last time I do that. Next time I'll only promise hotdogs (which are going up too).
@7:19, in 2 years you may not even be able to afford hot dogs. In 2 years you may be grilling dogs or squirrels!
ReplyDeleteIt's not just the meat prices.
ReplyDeleteIt seem like forever I've paid less than a dollar a pound for Roma tomatoes, then Shazamm! $1.99 a pound. Beefsteak tomato is over 3 bucks a pound.
One pound boxes of pasta have always been $.99 or less, $.79 when on sale, now they are $1.99 and when on sale, $1.79
I can't remember what prime rib tastes like. It's been at least 10 years since I've had any and since I now see packs of prime rib at Sam's Club for $30-40 bucks, they stay on the shelf.
I too am teaching myself all about pressure canning. 12, quart size Mason jars are usually about $8.00. I bought a pressure cooker for $23.00. It has no pressure gage, but I can attach one for about $6.00. Meanwhile if the instruction is to "cook" the jars for 10 min, I just go for 20.
I'll grow as many veggies as I can all summer long and then switch to a winter crop. I live in the city. I'll build a vertical garden once I run out of space. Find a copy of "Square Foot Gardening" and read it, then read it again.
@8:32
ReplyDeleteYou are probably right. I wonder if hot dogs can be dried or canned???
Hot dogs are no good for you. Can fruits and veggies instead.
ReplyDeleteI've been making and canning my own jelly and jam for a while. It's time consuming but easier than you think.
If you still want to preserve meat, get a pressure canner. I bought one at the flea market for $15; it needs a gauge too, but I can order one from the manufacturer. You should see if the company that made yours is still around. And you can get tons of Mason jars for pennies at the yard sales. The glass jars are always good; just buy new lids.
WANT TO EAT WELL FOR LESS MONEY
ReplyDeleteLEARN TO COOK FROM SCRATCH.LEARN TO EAT LEFT-OVERS.
BUY IN BULK WHEN THINGS ARE ON SALE. A 5$ CHICKEN WILL MAKE 4 MEALS FOR ONE PERSON. A 10$ POTROAST WITH VEGGIES COOKED IN A DUCH OVEN WILL LAST FOR 5 OR 6 MEALS. ALL THE ABOVE ARE MUCH CHEAPER THAN FAST OR PROCESSED FOOD (WHICH WILL KILL YA) AND TASTE A HELL OF A LOT BETTER. GET OFF YOUR BUTT-LEARN HOW TO SURVIVE