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Ray Swindle wrote:
Danpbphoto wrote:
Ray Swindle wrote:
Bill Gass wrote:
Dam, sorry to hear as well, he was a nice old guy and being from Oregon made him even better ! 
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Hang in there Jan-Arie, I'm dealing with the same thing here, covid, osha, had to let a guy go that had been here a long time, employees having other personal issues other than covid...I hear ya on the stress. On top of that, can't find anyone that wants to work anymore around here. They can beg for money on a corner all day long with their dog, cell phone and smoking but can't handle a job. The thought of even hiring someone that wants to work let alone someone who wants to figure things out and a be go getter is pretty much a thing of the past I think. It's sad.
Bill, this is not good news for our country. I am isolated from the working world by living a retired life in cozy Central Texas. (I consider shooting high school and college sports for the local newspapers a hobby.) We don't eat out much or shop in stores. I do the grocery shopping (an old habit I love) and I do see longer wait times at the deli and fish market, (fresh beef is too expensive for us). I assume this is due to the employment problem as they do have "We're Hiring" signs in the area.
I don't even know how to change the attitudes, or, 'new normal for our culture' you have described. Guess it is good to be an old guy who doesn't have long to deal with the lasting effects of the new normal.
Ray
Good Morning Ray!
Attitudes are not changing around here. They are getting worse! .....Dumb is forever the saying goes!
The meat prices, at least here in Maryland, are not due to employment issues.
The local butcher buys direct from the cattle owner. His butcher's are well paid! It is well priced but scarce!
The prices are set buy a middleman at the grocery stores. Why? Because my local butcher sells out of his meat, chicken and pork stock as soon as he posts it! So off to the stores where the cattle man sells to his supplier and the supplier raises his prices to the stores.
The local grocery stores want $30 bucks for a small roast and a few (2) steaks. Hamburger $15 a pound!!!!!!!
People are still getting paid more NOT to work than work here! Prices are skyrocketting here for all items. Still NO Kellogs Rice Krispies for months. Thanks to Jim, our Texas Krispies are keeping us, or Suzanne, happy..but they are running out also.
It is a Mad World and getting worse!!
Sorry to rant!
Dan
Dan, around here the cattlemen take their cattle to auction. Below are the average prices Texas cattlemen are getting for steers, heifers are a little less. The weight is for on the hoof, the average net weight after carcass, bones and fat is 55-75%. Anyway, if you average everything out, the cattlemen are getting about $3.00/pound for beef, net. Before the pandemic my wife and I would buy a couple of beef tenderloins for $16/pound. Now, that same cut is $40/pound. I can guarantee my farmer is not making that much off his beef. He has offered me a cut and wrapped steer at a great saving. I turned him down because my wife and I would not eat that much beef before it "began to turn"...if you know what I mean. And his beef is equal to the Angus beef sold in our local market.
Steers
Weight Range
200-300 $153 $208
300-400 $170 $187
400-500 $156 $191
500-600 $143 $185
600-700 $136 $164
700-800 $131 $150
Heifers
Weight Range
200-300 $140 $179
300-400 $148 $168
400-500 $138 $163
500-600 $131 $158
600-700 $124 $147
700-800 $113 $137
(edit) ps: Just got back from the grocery store. Ground hamburger, 97% fat free = $6.97/pound. Top Choice tenderloins, center cut are still $40.99/pound.
Good Morning Ray!
Sorry late in responding to your post!
Yes the same method of cattle sale is the same here also. But we have a few private butchers that have products that the stores are out of or "out of sight" price wise.
Many, if not most, of my friends I grew up are farmers. Cattle, grains and dairy. They are not happy at what they get for their beef, yes a tad more than usual, but the price at the grocery store versus what they made is really out of sight!
Yes I realize the workflow from auction to store. Farmers seem to get the short end of the stick to me.
Thanks for the tables! It is great to have dirty fingernails brother! In my next life, I will be a farmer!!! It is in my blood!
Dan
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