And, Costco is DEI in giving people with special needs and also non-whites equal opportunities for employment. Win Win
i bought a vacuum sealer. stuff lasts practically forever. don't know if thats what tom paris uses?????
Woke farmers reacting to ongoing drought conditions in the US sold off a lot of their herds. It takes years to build back up the stock.
Nope. Not the way it’s packaged. I’m making carne asada in the crockpot right now out of a sirloin roast from 2023. Airtight wrap and it looks perfect.
How much are you paying? We have a half coming in mid march to split with our daughter, should be hanging now.
There's no cows out there. We are also in the process of deporting over 40% of our food processors.
That and it’s not like stuff doesn’t go bad in a freezer. I think 9 months to 12 months tops for steaks.
How does a 1/4 a cow last 2 years? First of all you shouldn’t eat frozen food after 8 months but even after that a 1/4 lasts us 6 months.
It didn’t help matters that the Dutton Yellowstone Ranch got hit with an outbreak of brucellosis.
Imagine the costs passed onto the consumers to move 50 cows and 4 cowboys 1000 miles. Plus the weekend hookers and hotel parties Beth promised them.
Cattle prices spiked at the end of last year into this year. More demand than the supply, I have heard there is a 2 to 3% deficit. Its not an easy fix, all the old cattle are getting sold at these prices. Even if they could get 1 to 2 more potential calves, the prices are just obscene. I had one farmer said they sold pretty much everything over 6 years old and just keeping all their calves to get the herd much younger.
It wasn't woke it was all the farmers in Texas and Oklahoma. The drought meant sky high feed, and not enough water, which resulted in a lot of livestock deaths and culling of the herds in 2022 and 2023 that has never been replenished. The cattle farmers are knocking it out of the park. Sky high prices, cheap hay and feed costs, the cattle farmers are being called even as of last week to see if they need hay for pennies on the dollar. Low inputs and high sell prices, result in a huge margin.
I said woke because farmers reacted to a persistent drought. A drought many believe is exacerbated by climate change. Farmers actions signal an acknowledgement the planet and markets are changing to a new reality no matter what is said publicly about such silly things as human based climate change.
You don’t eat much beef if that’s lasting you two years.
Every time I go back to NW Iowa, I bring a cooler and hit Fareway.
Fareway has good cuts of meat, generally at reasonable prices. I don’t like to pay for membership fees to be a Costco or Sam’s Club member.
We haven’t had good luck in buying beef in bulk like that…got some fatty cuts of meat. Maybe we just got it from a poor source?
I purchase at the local mean market some time, what I have found is the fat layer is thicker, harder than what I can get at say Fareway, there also tends to be less marbling of the meat, however it does tend to have better flavor in my opinion and you know it doesn't have any preservatives that the producers put in it or on it, or injected with water to increase the weight.
That can happen, we have a good volume of guys raising and selling beef here. It's not hard to find out who knows what they are doing. We have a guy here selling for $3.00 a pound hanging weight plus processing fee. His beef is really just so-so. We are paying $4.00 a pound hanging weight from a guy that has a great reputation.
You make it back very quickly.
Yes I have read the big picture stuff spiking prices. I guess my OP was more focused on the contrast in prices between Costco/sam’s and HyVee. Maybe Costco has longer term contracts where they are locked into lower prices?
The buy hedges, no different than Hersheys buy hedges or purchasing ahead of time on cocoa. Cocoa spiked has spiked even more in the last year. Once those hedges or marketing runs out their prices will go up as well.
Real deal. My crew hunts the Quinling Mountain forests and tags them with radio transmitters and then when I have the itch for it for dinner the following evening, they tranquilize one and helo it to Hong Kong. Best to have them alive for the transport to the US. My G6 gets it across the Pacific and thanks to special arrangement, bypass USDA screening and land directly at my private airstrip and goes straight into the holding pen just 12 hrs later. Bleed it out, sear rare, and on Halle’s tummy by supper time. Very efficient and only tricky part is keeping them entertained for the long flight.
