The problem is that so little of the hog is actually bacon, there's downward pressure on the demand for the rest of the animal to produce enough bacon. Bacon prices will go up, while the rest goes down.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Jones" <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020 11:00:55 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Happy Monday smithfield bacon is awful anyway. our local dairy has been selling their stuff direct to consumer and flooding the local stores. they keep putting heavy cream up dirt cheap so me and the kids have been shake shake shaking the shit out of butter. When this things over, dairy will be a weird industry, they were already in the toilet. so all these small outfits will have re-aligned to local commerce and the restaraunt industry will open back up, so theyll be demand heavy with decreased output. Im hoping the meat industry does the same. buying from local butchers in bulk was already cheaper than buying package meats, and the quality tends to be better. Hopefully the trend takes and people move back to local meatshops. that will bring jowl bacon costs down for me. China, having croaked off a good chunk of their population will hopefully have a lower pork belly demand and the bacon prices will go down 5 dollars a pound for consumer grade bacon is simply hateful. It really bugs me to know they buy up all our bellies and dont even turn them into bacon, thats sacrilege. Maybe we will find the "simpler times" are the more roust times. I still cant find any tyson chicken thighs On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 10:36 AM Ken Hohhof < af...@kwisp.com > wrote: Bad news for you pork lovers, Smithfield is closing some plants, and warning it threatens our national meat supply. But on the other hand I heard there is actually a bacon glut due to all the restaurant closures, and that people were trying to figure out how to hoard all the cheap bacon. So not sure who to believe. Not inclined to automatically believe the CEO of a big meat processor. Also reports of farmers dumping produce and milk because they can’t sell it. Interesting, usually the worry is sick pigs, now it’s sick people. From: AF < af-boun...@af.afmug.com > On Behalf Of Mathew Howard Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020 10:20 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group < af@af.afmug.com > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Happy Monday I wish they had these charts per state or metro area, but I haven't found that anywhere yet (not that I've spent a lot of time looking... ) The problem with this, is that it's pretty much just showing the NYC curve at this point (since everything else is buried under those numbers), and doesn't really give us a good picture of what's happening in other parts of the country. I expect we're going to follow along with Chicago here, which looks like it's probably just getting started... On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 10:12 AM < ch...@wbmfg.com > wrote: <blockquote> image -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com </blockquote> -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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