An Interesting Summer For Beef

About this episode

The episode discusses the current state of beef production, highlighting tight inventories and rising prices.

Beef production continues to keep inventories tight and prices pushing higher. Beef harvest last week was 520K head, up a bit from the 503K the week prior but still not enough to fill the demand. Middle meats, those strips loins, tenderloins and ribeyes continue to push higher every week. Thin meats, think flank, skirt, sirloin flap, all are in tight supply and pushing higher every week. Grinds held steady for the next week but I do think we will see grinds pushing hig...

People in this episode

Host: Tracy

Topics covered

• beef production
• market trends
• food supply
• pricing
• inventory

Keywords

• beef production
• prices
• inventory
• middle meats
• thin meats
• grinds

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Saval Foodservice

Products: Beef

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