>>519448903 (OP)
the price of bougie-beef (100% grassfed, picking up direct from the farmer) always follows grocery store prices and will ALWAYS be higher. Right now it's $10-16/lb, that price includes every cut, so while filet is $10-16/lb, so is ground. the farmers for sure have higher input costs than in previous years due to kikery but they're also making sure they get theirs. argentinian beef would benefit the bougie-beef consumer by lowering grocery store prices, harming big ag in the US, and then lowering bougie-beef prices, and the bougie-beef farmer won't starve, just get less of a windfall. Going hanging weight is $3-6/lb, so double that to get the yield weight (half is waste/unusable for us), so $8/lb then the price for the butcher and if you didn't structure it as a personal use sale then (((usda))) and whatever extra the farmer decides to charge/gouge you for. some farmers charge the per-pound price for the waste products (fat/bones) that the butchers only charge a bagging fee for, that's kikery for sure. you do get an expensive finished product when you're done with it (tallow/bone broth), but they shouldn't charge that much for it.
>t.beef buyer