Expect to shell out a few more dollars for burgers and steaks this year.
Meat prices from retailers show that prices are up between 18-20 percent from last year.
Homesteader Meats Owner Ben Klassen says eight months ago he predicted sides of beef costing four dollars a pound, and currently they are just a few cents below that.
“I don’t foresee any daylight for awhile, because for one thing, there is a shortage of cows and you need the cows to have cows,” says Klassen, “so that takes a few years to get that going.”
Klassen says the spike in meat prices has been predicted for a while.
He says this is due to rancher’s selling off their herds and less and less mother cows producing calves for slaughter.
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