FOOD & AGRICULTURE • BEEF
You fired up the grill yesterday. You paid for it. Ground beef just hit $6.90 a pound — a record. Twelve months ago it was $5.98. Five years ago it was $3.86. This isn’t the war. It isn’t the Fed. It isn’t tariffs. It’s cattle. The U.S. herd just dropped to 86.2 million head — the smallest since Harry Truman was president. Fewer cows, same hungry country. You’re paying the difference.
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That pound of beef costs you 92 cents more than it did the day after Memorial Day last year.
