Farmer predicts US beef and pork prices will rise more by year end
Posted by Blueporch@reddit | PrepperIntel | View on Reddit | 77 comments
Caught up with a local small scale farmer (NE Ohio) who raises beef cattle and grows a few crops like soybeans.
He said there’s a shortage of beef cattle and pigs right now. He mentioned that the 4H kids are having a hard time finding animals to raise.
I was pleased to hear that he is actually receiving better prices for his beef and it wasn’t all profiteering elsewhere in the supply chain. This is a small side business and he typically teeters on the edge of it not being worth continuing.
2600sysop@reddit
Glad I put two deer in the freezer last season.
TapEmbarrassed4376@reddit
Gonna try to find some road kill to freeze later today
NaggerGuy@reddit
folks we'll brb with more rfk on jre
weJtiddeR@reddit
Imagine being anti preparedness to the point you wait until the very end , until panic has gripped your city. You go to the store to get supplies for the family, the wife is pregnant with your 3rd, the dogs are waiting patiently at home.
You pull up to the store only to see a line of people waiting to get in. People walking out virtually empty handed. You think "hmmm thats odd, why arent they buying anything".
You finally get inside to see in amazement that the shelves are as bare as OPs pictures. Almost nothing left, well nothing of value.
You eventually head home, completely destroyed, in denial that this cant be happening. "Its literally nothing" the memeflag poster kept saying. How can he be wrong.
After you break the news to the family they begin to resent you for not being open to prepping in the first place. Your wifes boyfriend has been doing it for years and has plenty of supplies, hes offered to take care of your wife and two daughters. You have no choice but to accept, in reality they were going to leave regardless.
Now you are stuck in an empty home with the starving dogs, Its either you or them at this point. They will turn on you eventually too.
All this because you thought the word prepper = schizo. All because you let your pride and ego take control.
Use some common sense. Prepare now for what could be tomorrow. Its best to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
No_Possible_7108@reddit
I am broke though 😢
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Say you are about to starve to death and all of the sudden the body of RFK Jr fell onto the ground in front of you(I swear he died peacefully in his sleep, reddit). Do you tear into a leg of Kennedy or do you choose to accept death?
weJtiddeR@reddit
But road kill is free bro. I'm not eating that lizard person, too much Crack and too many boomer vaxxes for me.
DeadlyYellow@reddit
Could also learn to tie a snare and procure an air gun (optional,) if you haven't already.
megalodon319@reddit
4 here; one for each person in my household.
FZbb92@reddit
6 here. Two for each
HelloSummer99@reddit
I want to preface that I don't want to tell people how they live their lives. Just want to share my perspective. With my wife we turned vegan approx. 7 years ago, We make our own protein, seitan, others, from scratch. Basically from flour but with seasoning it tastes great. We don't really eat too many ultra-processed things. I can confidently say that I look younger than my peers. We are not fully vegan though, we did start eating eggs since we thought there is nothing fundamentally immoral or wrong with free-range chicken eggs. But even that you don't need to, we didn't for 6+ years and didn't miss any nutrients, backed up by blood tests. Probably saved a bunch of money too, 3-piece steak in costco cost how much? Saw on tiktok it is like 60 bucks now?
No_Possible_7108@reddit
Oh, you may want to look into ovo-lacto vegetarianism which is regular vegetarian but you are allowed to eat eggs and have dairy
No_Possible_7108@reddit
The eggs people typically eat would never grow into a chicken anyway so you are actually reducing waste by eating them👍
The kind you can buy were never fertilized(that may be the wrong word, not sure) so nothing will change or grow after it has been laid
Gygax_the_Goat@reddit
Right on friend 🙂👍
Tonguebathing@reddit
Time to go vegetarian!
Gygax_the_Goat@reddit
Grow your own organic food in your own garden!
🙂👍
No_Possible_7108@reddit
Can you loan me a garden? Stupid apartments with no outdoor space☹️
majordashes@reddit
I tried tofu for the first time last year and absolutely love it. So glad I discovered tofu at a time meat prices are so out of control.
Independent-Bug-9352@reddit
Former meat-eater and multi-decade vegetarian, here. Agreed! So many ways to cook it. Get the extra or better yet super-firm tofu, then freeze the blocks for 24 hours before letting them thaw; then get a tofu press and squeeze the juices out to make it firmer but also capable of sucking in sauces like a sponge. You can air-fry it, pan fry it, throw it in soup, bake it, etc.
In general it's also just better for you, too, with the exception of maybe wild caught salmon within the context of a Mediterranean diet.
Also beans & rice go a long way, leaving aside soups!
Gutter_panda@reddit
Joe Biden CANNOT keep getting away with this.
Gygax_the_Goat@reddit
Isnt he asleep or something though?
Gutter_panda@reddit
Well yes, running the shadow elite makes one very sleepy.
No_Possible_7108@reddit
Joelluminati
Own-Swan2646@reddit
We should vote him out and pick the guy that bankrupted a stake company. He might know how to fix beef prices.
Big_Fortune_4574@reddit
The guy is an absolute menace !
Big_Fortune_4574@reddit
Beef has a whole bunch of other stuff going on with it that’s going to cause even more insane prices over time. But everything is going to go up like crazy over the next year
linniex@reddit
Screwworms are a threat again now too
No_Possible_7108@reddit
Any idea if that is limited to cows? I feel like I may have heard pork too but may be wrong
skeletordescent@reddit
I'll be curious how many "influencers" try and make content about "beef alternatives for the 4th of July". Me I'm going back to beans.
Aramedlig@reddit
Just beans, no franks :(
No_Possible_7108@reddit
What about beans and Roger?
mystery_biscotti@reddit
We've been doing more lentils, chickpea, black beans, and split peas. But I have some ancient vital wheat gluten that I've been trying to make into seitan (AKA wheat meat).
My first batch turned out alright. The second will be "Korean BBQ beef" for stir fry noodles because it's bland and crumbly. It could benefit from vegetable and sauce and noodle.
I'll keep trying though!
No_Possible_7108@reddit
In the unlikely chance you haven't tried it yet, you might give tofu a go. I had it in a stir fry and it was really nice. I believe the kind we tried was the 'firm' variety and the texture reminded me a bit of hard boiled egg whites. There is also an 'extra firm' variety and a ton of softer varieties
skeletordescent@reddit
I’ve tried seitan a few times and I agree it’s bland and crumbly. Not terrible, but I’d rather stick to beans. Best of luck with it though! Me my lunch and dinner mainstay is gonna be a three bean salad.
premar16@reddit
Most suggest ground turkey since it is cheaper these days
Holiday_Fishing241@reddit
More tubesteak I guess…
Strange-Luck-5786@reddit
MinRoll@reddit
Sky is blue
Aramedlig@reddit
Fertilizer costs go up so feed costs go up. And we here know why fertilizer costs are going up
elinamebro@reddit
Can you fill me in on why? Im a bit late to this so im out of the loop.
LeadingTheme4931@reddit
Fertilizer is made from natural gas and 30% of the worlds supply travels though the Hormuz straight. It’s even more at risk than oil, same as helium, but mainstream isn’t talking about it. Also, fertilizer (can’t remember which component) in the US is mostly imported and mostly used for corn feed - which is then used for livestock animals. And it’s spring.. so most of this will hit hard later but a lot of farmers are already adjusting their plans in advance of the shortage or due to the increased cost. Hope that helps!
2quickdraw@reddit
Urea is the fertilizer they export, that's stuck.
ProtestedGyro@reddit
I imagine that will affect DEF prices too.
Re_Thought@reddit
Just a ^tiny issue going on, that by totally random chance has led to the closure of the straight of Hormuz.
Daxx22@reddit
And transport and processing and packaging...
TheSensiblePrepper@reddit
All that packaging is made from plastics, that are made from oil, that isn't going to be processed.
Aramedlig@reddit
Yup
tetraodonmiurus@reddit
Why is this even a prediction and not a foregone conclusion.
Blueporch@reddit (OP)
Probably is, but I didn’t want to insert my opinion, just share what I heard
bradyblack@reddit
Good. Stop eating that crap. Hunt or eat more veggies. Get meat local for a treat every once in a while or raise your own.
Gygax_the_Goat@reddit
Right on 👍
Friendly_Shopping286@reddit
EVERYTHING is going to keep going up
weJtiddeR@reddit
Yet another magical action of the Federal Reverse "stabilizing" the economy. Central banking is the biggest scam ever perpetrated on mankind, and few still can even conceptualize it, even when you explain it to them. That's how deep the brainwashing and programming is. Hell my boss asked me last week if our money is still backed by gold......wow.
Yes some price increases are corporate greed, but until the printing presses are turned off, your currency will constantly lose value year after year regardless of what businesses do. And BOTH "sides" are all for it, but they do a good job of distracting and placing blame elsewhere.
Read about the hyperinflation of Weimar Germany before Hitler rose to power. And the government then blamed EVERYONE and EVERYTHING besides the money printing. Only once the printing presses were stopped, did the German mark stabilize in a matter of a few months.
They've gotten better at prolonging run away inflation, but it will happen. It has happened to every currency not backed by something tangible in 100% cases.
Reddit will downvote this and just blame TACO and the right will blame taxes, and your currency will continue to devalue as planned.
Strange-Luck-5786@reddit
Until we can't afford it
wildlife_is_neat@reddit
Yeah we don't need a farmer for insight here. Prices on everything are going up.
Relative-Kangaroo-96@reddit
Good; meat is murder.
RememberKoomValley@reddit
But the rampant suffering of our agricultural workers, and the many, many, many "vermin" animals killed for our soybeans and our fruit and the wheat are A-ok!
Independent-Bug-9352@reddit
soybeans are mostly grown to feed cattle anyway, so not sure this is going to work as an argument -- and agricultural workers is a constant, regardless -- and I'm pretty sure most people would prefer working and being paid than being packed in like sardines and ground up, but idk.
Ok-Aspect9915@reddit
Never a better time to become vegetarian, I guess. Beans will go up too, but a pound of black beans is still $1.79 at my grocery store
AromaticCod9430@reddit
I still get a lb of chicken for 99 cents at my local Asian market. My freezer is full of whole chickens
AirborneGeek@reddit
Costco--I think system-wide--has whole chickens back down to 99 cents a pound. I'm not at liberty to discuss how many chickens are in the freezer.
GenChadT@reddit
Whole chickens are where it's at. Learning how to quarter one and roast whole chickens (and save the drippings and make stock from everything left over) is pretty easy and rewarding.
ExplanationFunny@reddit
I’m getting better at my chicken game.
One of my favorites is to take two leg quarters and cook them with a bunch of aromatics for a long time and then serve everything over rice. It’s soooo delicious and very easy. When I’m feeling lazy I just use a premade pho spice bag from the Asia grocery.
AromaticCod9430@reddit
Yep I pressure can the bone broth I make from the leftover bones! It was gross at first lol but I’ve gotten much better at butchering the chickens. I’m about to get meat chickens that I will really butcher myself 😅
FeistyTie5281@reddit
Trump is president.
And the Sky is Blue.
Strange-Luck-5786@reddit
Guess who's going vegetarian?!
Zephyr_Dragon49@reddit
Beef has already become a once in a while thing for me. Cholesterol and gastric disease reasons. Pork is still in though. Costco pork loins are a great deal. Last time I bought one it was $13 and was divided into 4 recipes with 4 servings each. 16 dinners for probably a grand total of $30-40 isnt too bad imo even if half of it was a single ingredient
Raven_Photography@reddit
Man says grass is green. Thanks for stating the obvious.
uselessandexpensive@reddit
It's a good year to start your backyard gardens if you haven't...
SquirrelyMcNutz@reddit
Well, on sale, 80/20 burger is already up to $5/lb. That's as much or more than what it was during Covid. Normal on sale is around $3.60-3.80ish/lb.
ThisIsAbuse@reddit
Started stocking the garage freezer with extra
No-Artichoke-6939@reddit
I swear it’s as if I had some sort of premonition 11/6/24…. Still eating the half cow we picked up 4/2025, and now the quarter we picked up a couple of months ago.
dumbdude545@reddit
Im just gonna buy another beef half. Fucj this.
Ladydoodoo@reddit
I’ve been eating chicken for over a year. I can’t pay more than $2/lb some of you are rich in my opinion
stockchaser317@reddit
Wheat and corn prices will rise within 6-9 months due to fertilizer shortage, drought, and uncertainty.
NewFraige@reddit
Argentina is telling its citizens to eat donkey meat. I can’t imagine things will bet better anytime soon.
Mr_Metrazol@reddit
Damn I hope they do. I've got an incredible amount of operating capital tied up in cattle this year. Not even joking here, what I had to pay to stock both pastures in steers would have bought twice as many cattle ten years ago.
I hate it for the people buying beef at the grocery stores, but I'm really hoping things will pan out this year. I know I'm not the only cattleman in my position either. Lots of us are taking major risks this year.
VariousFalcon7466@reddit