{"id":3195,"date":"2014-02-27T07:02:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T12:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3195"},"modified":"2014-02-27T07:02:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T12:02:38","slug":"increase-beef-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/increase-beef-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"An increase in beef prices…."},"content":{"rendered":"

….everywhere else.\u00a0 The size of cattle herds continue to slide and that means beef prices at the supermarket will continue to climb.\u00a0 Of course, they’ll go up even faster because of other costs.<\/p>\n

Thistle Hill<\/em> has been able to hold the line on prices for several years now because we’re less vulnerable to the economics of commercial operations….and we don’t spray, pour and spread all those expensive chemicals on our land and animals.\u00a0 While the most expensive input in most cattle operations is nutrition, for us it is butchering.<\/p>\n

We’ve made the point before that it costs us about $500 to process a steer; the big commercial operations get it done for about $50 per animal.\u00a0 Our butcher did mutter the other day that the price of his packaging supplies was going up and he’d have to pass on the increase….but there was nothing specific.\u00a0 We’ll see.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, here’s the report on what’s going on in that “other world”:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-02-26\/cattle-rise-to-record-hogs-gain-on-shrinking-meat-supply.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….everywhere else.\u00a0 The size of cattle herds continue to slide and that means beef prices at the supermarket will continue to climb.\u00a0 Of course, they’ll go up even faster because of other costs. Thistle Hill has been able to hold the line on prices for several years now because we’re less vulnerable to the economics of commercial operations….and we don’t spray, pour and spread all those expensive chemicals on our land and animals.\u00a0 While the most expensive input in most cattle operations is nutrition, for us it is butchering. We’ve made the point before that it costs us about $500 to process a steer; the big commercial operations get it done for about $50 per animal.\u00a0 Our butcher did mutter the other day that the price of his packaging supplies was going up and he’d have to pass on the increase….but there was nothing specific.\u00a0 We’ll see. Meanwhile, here’s the report on what’s going on in that “other world”: http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-02-26\/cattle-rise-to-record-hogs-gain-on-shrinking-meat-supply.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3197,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions\/3197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}