Karina Jones is a real-life ranch wife in the Nebraska Sandhills and one of the most highly sought-after speakers in the cattle industry nationwide!
The cost of ground beef. Thanks for joining me today on Ranch Raised.
The cost of beef and groceries in general has been front and center on every media outlet. It has become easy to paint the cattle rancher as the easy villain. But, new data just released but the University of Nebraska affirms what cattle ranchers have been saying, “it costs more to raise that T-Bone than ever before.”
The lifecycle of that pot roast doesn’t just happen overnight. Cattle can’t just lay an egg for your to slap on the grill the next day. In fact, from conception to harvest that single bovine has been growing and maturing for over 24 months….yes, 2 years from the time the bull and the cow met up until that animal was on your plate. And with everyday that goes by there is a cost incurred to raising that animal. And as the years and months go by, that cost is rising, a lot.
In fact, a study just released this week by the University of Nebraska magnifies the rising cost of raising cattle in “the beef state”. According to their findings, “Average annual production costs rose approximately $300 per cow compared to the previous year.” With the range of production costs for a cow being between $1300 a year to over $1700 a year. Under baseline assumptions, average breakeven values range around $2,400/head.” Keep in mind that is on just 1 cow! So when you multiply that number by 100 head or 500 head we are talking some pretty big bills that cattle ranchers are having to incur in order to sell a calf crop and get a pay check!
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