Why There’s No Looming Relief From High Beef Prices

In most years you don’t think a lot about beef prices, and especially not about how the beef in the grocery case even gets there. Today’s record prices, though — the national average for sirloin is $14.11 per pound — are attracting a lot of attention from consumers, and politicians. So much so that President Trump recently relaxed tariffs on 300,000 metric tons (about 661 million pounds) of imported beef to bring down costs. Read Full Article »