Will rising beef prices ever come down? Here's what experts say

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

NEXSTAR) – Beef prices are going to remain high and likely climb even higher before consumers can expect to see any relief in the coming years, experts say.

“There’s nothing anybody can do about it in the short run,” Dr. Derrell Peel, a professor of agriculture economics and the extension specialist for livestock marketing at Oklahoma State University, told Nexstar. “We don’t have enough cattle, and it takes an extended amount of time to produce more. So we’re in it for the foreseeable future.”

The high price of beef has prompted finger-pointing from politicians within the Trump administration and beyond. In separate interviews with Fox Business this past week, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blamed the Biden administration for at least some of the problems with supply.

But Democrats have argued that prices of several staple grocery items have only skyrocketed under President Trump, and that his tariffs on beef imports (which he finally said he’d scrap earlier this month) have done nothing but exacerbate the problem.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/rising-beef-prices-ever-come-140000182.html

But what about all the cattle they say migrants are bringing in?

[walkingman]

1. Eat less beef. The earth and your health will thank you. Doesn't mean you have to cut it out just limit it.

[dedl67]

3. The planet will also thank you.

Livestock production contributes about 14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions.

[underpants]

2. Worms!!!

An aside, Howard Stern once observed about the failure of Trump steaks “How in the ____ can you lose money selling red meat to Americans?”

But Peel says the current cycle began in 2019, when herd sizes began to decline. Droughts in the following years certainly exacerbated the problem, but Peel also believes that uncertainty within the cattle industry — fueled by the Trump administration’s talk about importing beef, or open grazing land — might now be gumming up the works of the cyclical cattle production cycle.

Bessent, in his interview, also claimed that rising beef prices could partially be blamed on “migrants” from Mexico who allegedly brought screw worm-infected cattle over the border, forcing the U.S. to stop imports from the country. But again, Peel said Bessent “doesn’t know what … he’s talking about.” Peel explained that the U.S. only imports between 1 million and 1.2 million head of cattle from Mexico per year, which is “not insignificant,” but only makes up about 3.3 percent of total imports, and isn’t a major factor in rising prices.