Bacon Shortage?

[red dog]

Global bacon shortage? Say it aint so!

 

[so ms smoker]

  That's what I read too.  Better stock up on pork bellies!

  Mike

 

[s2k9k]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57519703/global-bacon-shortage-unavoidable-group-says/

 

[roller]

Just another way to hike the price.....

 

[s2k9k]

Just another way to hike the price.....

Yea, that article said only about a 1% change here in the US but I bet that will transfer to about 10-20% increase in prices.

 

[scarbelly]

We have a hard time getting bellies locally as it is - this will not be fun 

 

[woodcutter]

A pork price hike is going to really hurt. Seems like everything I'm interested in or need to buy is always going through some kind of disaster.
 

 

[chef jimmyj]

On the News I was watching this morning it was just a blurb with no detail...I almost choked on my Bacon and Eggs...Finished Smoking on Sat. Cost $2.99 a Pound for 24Lb of skin on Bellies...JJ 

 

[diggingdogfarm]

It's the market speculators who will really drive up the price!


~Martin

 

[venture]

40% of our corn is going to make fuel that gives lousy mileage.  Throw in the drought and you have a perfect storm.

Good luck and good smoking.

 

[thsmormonsmokes]

This thread has the saddest title in the history of thread titles.

 

[badbob]

I haven't gotten a good deal on anything but chicken in about 5 months. That's the last time I got pork butts for under $1.00 a pound. The best I've seen is a "case price" at Sam's for $1.34 a pound last week. 

 

[whtplainssmoker]

40% of our corn is going to make fuel that gives lousy mileage.  Throw in the drought and you have a perfect storm.

Good luck and good smoking.

I read this article on Slate back at the end of July, noting the lunacy of the Ethanol policy.  (the U.S. ethanol industry is using domestic corn to make ethanol (which we have to much of) and shipping that fuel to Brazil while domestic livestock producers are importing Brazilian corn so they can produce bacon in America.) The article said bacon prices would go up.  Should have stocked up then.  

 

[bigfish98]

Just ordered a case of pork bellies.  Price went up 9 cents from $2/lb to $2.09/lb. 

Bigfish

 

[red dog]

Wow I really stirred up the hornets nest. You can do a lot of things but don't mess with a mans bacon!

 

[roller]

I have been stocking up on Butts that I find on sale. Got a pretty good stash so far...

 

[JckDanls 07]

I read this article on Slate back at the end of July, noting the lunacy of the Ethanol policy.  (the U.S. ethanol industry is using domestic corn to make ethanol (which we have to much of) and shipping that fuel to Brazil while domestic livestock producers are importing Brazilian corn so they can produce bacon in America.) The article said bacon prices would go up.  Should have stocked up then.  rock of chit

We have kind of the same scenario here.. I work at the port loading ships with fertilizer... well.. Tropicana is here in our town and here's the deal with keeping OJ prices up... So they will pull up an OJ ship to another dock..... Then the trucks from Tropicana will start rolling in and they start off-loading from the trucks on to the front of the ship... and at the same time... off-loading OJ that's imported from Brazil on to trucks (although not Tropicana trucks) at the back of the ship.. I see it about 2-3 times a month during season... Tell me that ain't a crock of chit...

 

[whtplainssmoker]

Insane.  The amount of fuel wasted sending products around the globe to places that dont need them is crazy.

 

[diggingdogfarm]

Not if you're selling fuel!!! :biggrin:

I suspect that the alleged soybean shortage will have the greatest affect, protein is the most expensive component of the ration anyway.


~Martin

 

[sqwib]

Hell with it
if pork prices go to high i'll start smoking squirrel, when that runs out it'll be cats then dogs