About this episode
The episode discusses the rising prices and tight inventory of beef due to reduced production and increasing demand.
BEEF: I've been saying for a few weeks now it would not be a bad idea to keep well ahead of your needs. I’m doubling down on this as the reduced production we’ve seen this year is impacting product availability and pricing. Inventories will be tighter still with reduced production and increasing demand. Last week’s harvest was 521k head, running a full 10% behind last year’s reduced production. Markets are responding hard to this tight inventory, everything, I mean everything is moving higher...
People in this episode
Host: Tracy
Topics covered
- beef market
- production
- pricing
- inventory
- demand
Keywords
- beef
- production
- pricing
- inventory
- demand
- harvest
Mentioned in this episode
Products: BEEF
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