Sam Fenwick
speaker
124 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Sam Fenwick’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She buys live cattle and slaughters them.
She explains what she's paying for an animal now against what she was paying three years ago.
Most of the animal goes into what's called 90-10 trim, the lean beef that ends up in what most of us would call mince.
And although the price per pound has gone up too, Jamie's still making a loss on it.
Tyson, one of the big four meatpackers, has told its own investors much the same story.
It lost more than $500 million on beef across the first half of its financial year.
And with meatpackers and processors chasing fewer and fewer cows, Jamie says business is tough.
The chain doesn't end on a shelf.
It ends on a griddle.
Paul Urban owns Block 16, a burger restaurant in Omaha, Nebraska, and they didn't set out to sell burgers at all.
He's in cattle country.
People here absolutely love their beef.
He goes through about 300 pounds of ground beef a week.
That's around 2,800 burgers a month.
And every one of them starts with what he pays for the meat.
When Block 16 opened, Paul sold his burgers for $8.95.
Today, the price has increased to $11.95, and he says even with a $3 increase, it isn't enough to make a decent living.
He absorbs at least some of the difference and takes a thinner margin to keep prices down and customers coming back.
5%.
So that's what's left for the man at the very end of the chain after the rancher, the feedlot and the packer have taken their cut.
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