Record-high beef and pork prices for one more year

Grocery shoppers will pay record-level prices for beef and pork through 2015, says a University of Missouri think tank. Consumers will satisfy their appetite for meat by eating more chicken and turkey, which costs less, said the think tank, the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute in a mid-year update of its agricultural baseline. “Higher retail meat… » Read More

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