Digging In: Why Is Beef So Expensive?

By The Dirt To Dinner Team September 4, 2026 | 19 MIN EPISODE

Listen up!

If you want to understand how international trade wars, local weather, and biological timelines wrap your next hamburger in a sheet of global economics, this is the podcast episode you cannot afford to miss!

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By The Dirt To Dinner Team September 4, 2026 | 19 MIN EPISODE

Listen up!

If you want to understand how international trade wars, local weather, and biological timelines wrap your next hamburger in a sheet of global economics, this is the podcast episode you cannot afford to miss!

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Ever stood at the grocery meat counter and felt your jaw drop at a $6.75 price tag for a simple pound of ground beef?

You aren’t alone, and this episode of our podcast breaks down why your backyard barbecue is starting to feel like a luxury event. We dive into a mind-blowing math problem: the U.S. is trying to feed a population that has exploded by 92% since 1961 using a cattle herd that is the exact same size as it was during the John F. Kennedy administration.

If you want to understand how international trade wars, local weather, and biological timelines wrap your next hamburger in a cellophane sheet of global economics, this is the episode you cannot afford to miss!

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