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Hammer1967
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Originally posted by PASig:
I had posted earlier in the summer about how a pack of pork spareribs at Costco in previous years was $18-$22 depending on weight but this year I paid $55 Frown

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Originally posted by Hammer1967:
The last half of steer we bought was awful. The steaks we got went into the trash, extremely tough. Others we had bought were fine.

Have not bought one since.


Why wouldn't you at least grind all that or get it ground???



The locker that processed it was over an hour away, so taking it to them to grind was not an option. Not sure if a local shop would grind meat from an outside source.

We had bought from the same place the 3or 4 times we did it. Just the wife and I so 1/2 a steer is a lot to eat.


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I understand exactly what you’re dealing with. I’m on the inspection/ compliance side of the meat industry. I get many calls everyday from folks wanting to know what is going on and if it is only SC. I tell them it’s nation wide and exactly what you are saying about the drivers and labor. It’s very frustrating
And building a slaughter plant is very expensive, meeting the USDA requirements as well as local health regulations. Custom slaughter is good but still not the end all answer if people don’t have a freezer to keep the meat.


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Originally posted by joatmonv:
I deal with 2 of the largest meat brokers in the country and have had multiple conversations with both. There's a few things at play here that have been passed on to me.

1st is the labor shortage. It's not that there's no one at these meat plants but when I used to get 10,000 pounds of pork to make sausage, etc. I used to get it in boxes with a bag. I now get it in cardboard combos (as I call it) bulk at about 1500 - 2000 pounds in each one. Think big cardboard hot tub. Reason given to me was that there's no one to box it, strap the box and label each box.

2nd is the trucking industry. Rates are all over the place and have damn near doubled since March of this year. If a trucking company gets a higher price from someone else to pick something up, they'll drop your load for the more expensive one. I've had it happen a few times already. Shipping my product around the country has been an ordeal because as mentioned above, they'll drop a load if someone pays more. Also a shortage of drivers. US Foods in Cleveland is offering a HUGE sign on bonus to get drivers since a lot have left. Same with a lot of trucking companies.

I'm sure there's more to it but that's what I see and hear on a weekly basis.
 
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There's a high end market here with
Prime Porterhouse steaks $17.99
https://www.carmines.com/media...yg/specials-10-6.pdf

Costco's whole clean prime beef tenderloins were $32 a lb the other day and I'll put that up against any butcher shops beef tenderloin.
 
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