Patrick Thomas
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216 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 10 Jul
Patrick Thomas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Right now, there's no end in sight.
Some things could happen, but at this moment, it seems like beef prices are going to be high.
They're going to stay high and keep rising for some time.
But right now, it seems like we're headed for a place where beef is more of the luxury protein and that we're going to have to stomach these higher prices for good.
And it just might be kind of the luxury item at the meat case.
Oh, my God.
And, you know, I'm not on the hook for it.
I'm glad that this is on the family tab.
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Ranchers are just, they're really enjoying these good times.
They've historically always struggled to make profits, and now they're really making money, and a lot of them have decided that they're going to hold on to it and
There's not a lot of signs of significant herd rebuilding.
So that creates an environment where beef is just the premier luxury protein.
Several years ago, cattle ranchers across the United States started shrinking their herds.
This was due to some pretty poor financial conditions following the COVID-19 pandemic.
And then in 22, we had a massive drought that made it really expensive to
feed livestock.
So it made more financial sense for ranchers to send their animals to market, sent more to slaughter and essentially just shrunk their herds.
And now we're in a situation where we just don't have the supply to meet demand.
And that's pushed prices up to these record levels over the last year.
ranchers are just they're really enjoying these good times they've historically always struggled to make profits and now they're really making money and a lot of them have decided that they're going to hold on to it and there's not a lot of signs of significant herd rebuilding there are more farmers over 75 than there are under 35 so some of these guys are just choosing to retire they're not going to expand so that creates an environment where beef is just the premier luxury protein as some people are saying
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