Originally posted by Jimbo54: A lot of meat processing plants cut back or shut down altogether due to Covid. Hopefully that will change soon due to the herd immunity that's coming.
Jim
You sure identified part of the rising cost Jim-
Due to the extra money for unemployment the plants are short production workers bigtime. They can't run all their lines and the lines they can run are being manned with workers who are working seven (7) days a week.
Point is the labor costs are through the roof right now and there is less product being produced.
May 20, 2021, 04:10 PM
corsair
Pretty much everything is going up in price, the supply chains are stressed further up the chain. Just heard resins, aluminum and other materials common in making backpacking and camping tents are backed-up with 400+ day lead times.
If you're thinking of purchasing any camping gear for this year, like tents and sleeping bags...get'em now, as they're going to be in very short supply and relief won't be coming anytime soon.
May 20, 2021, 04:19 PM
lkdr1989
I think all the homelessvagrants in my city bought up all the cheap tents, tarps & sleeping bags
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Originally posted by corsair: If you're thinking of purchasing any camping gear for this year, like tents and sleeping bags...get'em now, as they're going to be in very short supply and relief won't be coming anytime soon.
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May 20, 2021, 06:04 PM
kramden
Don't worry....Joe has a plan.
May 20, 2021, 06:28 PM
radioman
Damn, no McRib this summer. Oh well.
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May 20, 2021, 07:22 PM
texassierra
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Originally posted by kramden: Don't worry....Joe has a plan.
His plan is playing out right now.
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May 20, 2021, 07:47 PM
cas
Looks to me like the prices have been going down? I bought some last night because the price was lower than the last few trips to the store.
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May 20, 2021, 10:36 PM
DougE
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Originally posted by Outnumbered: Are farmers getting a commensurate bump in market values?
I don't raise hogs, but I do cattle, and I can tell you that we get whatever buyers are willing to pay at auction. Doesn't matter how much diesel goes up to run tractors for hay, doesn't matter what feed prices are, we get as much as the buyers will pay. There ain't no raising our prices because our operating costs went up. The only ones making out are the meat packing plants.
The water in Washington won't clear up until we get the pigs out of the creek~Senator John Kennedy
May 21, 2021, 02:05 AM
1lowlife
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Originally posted by radioman: Damn, no McRib this summer. Oh well.
That nasty chunk of soylent green has very little, if anything, to do with pork.. If there is no McRib, society is doing you a favor..
May 21, 2021, 07:16 AM
SIG4EVA
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Originally posted by 1lowlife:
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Originally posted by radioman: Damn, no McRib this summer. Oh well.
That nasty chunk of soylent green has very little, if anything, to do with pork.. If there is no McRib, society is doing you a favor..
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May 21, 2021, 08:05 AM
Flash-LB
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Originally posted by 1lowlife:
That nasty chunk of soylent green has very little, if anything, to do with pork.. If there is no McRib, society is doing you a favor..
May 21, 2021, 08:31 AM
erj_pilot
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Originally posted by lkdr1989: I think all homelessvagrantsOUR TAX DOLLARS in my city bought up all the cheap tents, tarps & sleeping bags
FIFY.....
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
May 21, 2021, 09:24 AM
Elk Hunter
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Originally posted by Jupiter:
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Originally posted by Skins2881:
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Originally posted by smschulz: Inflation is hitting a lot of areas now and hard.
We can expect a lot of that from nothing being produced for a year+ and the government handing out checks for nothing.
Ammo, food, used cars, lumber, computers/components, everything is going up. Probably the only exception will be your salary.
Inflation is quickly canceling out that $15.00 per hour wage some are getting.
And why should that surprise anyone?
Elk
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May 21, 2021, 09:38 AM
joatmonv
Being in the meat industry personally, I had a feeling it was coming. I have 2 meat brokers I work with for ordering and after a phone call with both yesterday, it's crazy right now. Prices normally go up this time of year because people are cooking out more but this is different. The big meat/kill plants are short on labor because everyone is hiring and raising their wages. It's hard to compete sometimes. I personally gave every employee I have a $3 per hour increase to try to hang on to them. Yes, there's still people collecting state unemployment plus federal assistance but I've seen a good portion just leave to go get another job somewhere else.
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May 21, 2021, 10:01 AM
parabellum
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Originally posted by kramden: Don't worry....Joe has a plan.
You fucking pinhead. Utterly clueless. Truly, completely clue-free.
Banned
Happy now?
May 21, 2021, 12:14 PM
Jupiter
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Originally posted by joatmonv: Being in the meat industry personally, I had a feeling it was coming. I have 2 meat brokers I work with for ordering and after a phone call with both yesterday, it's crazy right now. Prices normally go up this time of year because people are cooking out more but this is different. The big meat/kill plants are short on labor because everyone is hiring and raising their wages. It's hard to compete sometimes. I personally gave every employee I have a $3 per hour increase to try to hang on to them. Yes, there's still people collecting state unemployment plus federal assistance but I've seen a good portion just leave to go get another job somewhere else.
Our state has wisely opted out of the federal assistance program.
Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -- George Orwell
May 21, 2021, 01:33 PM
bigwagon
The pork is too damn high!
May 21, 2021, 01:36 PM
bdylan
These prices will seem quaint by the end of the year.
May 21, 2021, 03:08 PM
RogueJSK
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Originally posted by Jupiter: Our state has wisely opted out of the federal assistance program.
As did Arkansas.
May 21, 2021, 05:34 PM
VBVAGUY
Lately China has been purchasing some of our livestock farms that produce pork and chicken and shipping them back for their own people. God Bless
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