SWMN Farmer - 6/16/2020 07:24 The shaft is coming from the packer. They pay little to buy the livestock (huge supply due to plant slowdowns over the last few months) and jack up the price to the retailers (small meat supply due to said slowdown). It's criminal but they have some game they play every year that makes them $$$$. Gonna get caught sooner or later.
That happened briefly while there were lots of plants shut down.
The Pork product market is getting closer everyday to being back where it was Pre-Covid.
With the speed that fresh meat turns over there is no reason for Pork in the store to still be high priced.
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