Posted by redforlife on February 22, 2022 at 09:52:51 from (174.210.129.113):
In Reply to: No Shortage posted by john in la on February 22, 2022 at 07:14:09:
Well, you can take your own butcher size steer to a local small town meat locker, and have it all cut up and packaged for ya, and the processing fees to get YOUR meat back, will be somewhere around equivalent to the value of the live animal when you took it in there. So, just figure double the price of a live animal, by the time it gets packaged in meat form. Now grant it, you can shop around for cheaper custom processing lockers, but they all seem to be on the same page. And ya sure, the huge plants can no doubt do it faster and cheaper on a non custom basis, but there's also alot more trucking expense that goes along with that, to make up for the lesser processing expense. Live cattle might have to be shipped across two states to get to that plant. I know one state is not uncommon. Once it's froze in a box, it might get trucked half way across the US to get to a store. So, basically comparing store prices to on the farm raw products is like comparing apples to oranges no matter what the situation is. That said, whenever there is a middle man involved, there is always a potential for price gouging, and excessive pocket padding. To say that it doesn't go on AT ALL, is just insane. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say, anybody is capable of charging more than thier fair share. As a consumer in a grocery store, my advice would be to look at the on sale prices, versus regular price. That will likely give you a better idea of actual cost as a consumer, rather than going clear back to on farm commodity price. A surplus of something, is likely to show up in stores on sale, and likely closer to an at cost price. A large packing plant burnt down in my state a while back. The other packing plants used this as an opportunity to price gouge, when there was no shortage of beef itself to be processed. The only shortage was in the processing part itself. After the smoke died down from all of this, state lawmakers aimed to make it so this couldn't happen, to protect both the consumer and producer. Not sure what progress they made. That's about the time the story fell out of the news, and I didn't dig deep to continue to follow the story. I'm sure others did.
Signing off, Redforlife, one of many US beef producers.
P.S. There was a couple threads on here (or maybe it was Tales) awhile back about shop rates and if thier was any funny business going on with that (pocket padding). To me, this topic kind of hits the same nail on the head. You can't really prove it. But you smell smoke. Sense that something ain't right.
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