Meat shortage?? NOT

[schmalts]

Sure is nice to be a hunter with a freezer full of a years worth of meat isn't it?

COVID-19 Meat Shortages Could Last for Months. Here's What to Know Before Your Next Grocery Shopping Trip

Meat's going to be harder to find and more expensive, possibly for the rest of the year. Here's what to know

www.yahoo.com

 

[npaden]

Would be interesting to see if some locally processed options pop up. Live beef prices are super low, folks could buy a steer and butcher it themselves.

 

[Nick87]

Would be interesting to see if some locally processed options pop up. Live beef prices are super low, folks could buy a steer and butcher it themselves.

Yah beef prices have plummeted along with milk also. I wouldn't want to be farming right now dark times ahead for some.

 

[JohnCushman]

I'm not worried

 

[Deleted member 38069]

This Fall's mantra, "If It's brown, It's down!" Legally of course.

 

[kansasdad]

From where I sit, I'm wondering if often times the media drumbeat becomes self fulfilling........ "look out, there is a meat shortage coming"...... and folks make a run on the meal aisle. Reminds me somewhat of the paper goods crisis. Charmin and Bounty were nowhere to be seen for weeks.

I get it that a certain fraction of the processing plants are under virus attach, but perhaps not enough to really make a huge difference if Americans use their heads...........oy!, what am I saying..... get your bacon NOW!

 

[Indianajoe]

In my area farmers are nearly giving pigs away. Some people are euthanizing them by the semi load. Look around you may be able to get pork free or cheap if you are willing to butcher yourself.

 

[Clam]

If they are adding wage incentives to worker pay at meat plants, I’m especially not worried about it.

Lean hog prices were up fairly strong today, live cattle were up a little, theoretically suggesting the situation will improve.

 

[Nick87]

If they are adding wage incentives to worker pay at meat plants, I’m especially not worried about it.

Not the hourly employees at the plant that are in trouble as much as the farmere raising the livestock.

 

[Indianajoe]

If they are adding wage incentives to worker pay at meat plants, I’m especially not worried about it.

My concern is because I work in the swine feed industry. We cant afford things getting much slower.

 

[slatebuilder]

A farmer friend from VA has 400 beef cows ready to go with no buyer. 2 weeks ago a milk processing plant not far from us was dumping tank trailer loads of raw milk, that same day that my wife was limited to 2 gallons at the store. Talk about messed up

 

[Nick87]

A farmer friend from VA has 400 beef cows ready to go with no buyer. 2 weeks ago a milk processing plant not far from us was dumping tank trailer loads of raw milk, that same day that my wife was limited to 2 gallons at the store. Talk about messed up

Yup

 

[Mudranger1]

Just curious. How are any live animal prices down if there is a shortage

 

[Indianajoe]

Just curious. How are any live animal prices down if there is a shortage

Processing plants are closing due to workers having covid.

 

[brockel]

We just bought a hog yesterday for dirt cheap. I’ll be butchering this weekend. Didn’t really need it but I’m not passing up a deal

 

[schmalts]

I see 235 pound live hogs for 100.00 in craigslist in Iowa. Help out a farmer and buy and butcher your own hog

 

[3855WIN]

We have those with a freezer and those without.

 

[88man]

I see 235 pound live hogs for 100.00 in craigslist in Iowa. Help out a farmer and buy and butcher your own hog

I know of a deal in Nebraska you pick up 280lbers plus for $90 ea.

 

[LuketheDog]

From where I sit, I'm wondering if often times the media drumbeat becomes self fulfilling........ "look out, there is a meat shortage coming"...... and folks make a run on the meal aisle. Reminds me somewhat of the paper goods crisis. Charmin and Bounty were nowhere to be seen for weeks.

I get it that a certain fraction of the processing plants are under virus attach, but perhaps not enough to really make a huge difference if Americans use their heads...........oy!, what am I saying..... get your bacon NOW!

This is EXACTLY what is happening! There was no need for a TP or paper towel shortage, if folks had bought at their normal rate there would have been no problem at all...but people won't use their brains, in the past couple months I've learned the vast majority of folks are short-sighted and irrational when the chips are down.

 

[belshawelk]

I am not a prepper by the term by which most think of it. I think of myself as more of a preparer. I own my own land, raise my own cattle, can hunt elk, deer, turkey, quail, grouse, geese, ducks all on my own property ( although geese and ducks are at they way bottom of the menus, in fact things have gotten really bad at that point). I just don't like to depend much on other people to provide for my family. Grew up that way.
We will never have a meat shortage in this country. We have a media that creates fear.