Over the four weeks ending April 19, 2026, beef generated $3.56 billion in retail dollar sales, up 7.5% year over year and outpacing competing proteins like chicken and pork.
Missouri cattle producer and Cattlemen’s Beef Board Secretary-Treasurer Kalena Bruce draws on Beef Checkoff-funded research and her own experiences as a producer, wife and mom to examine how consumers are approaching beef purchasing decisions today.
Tight beef supply, shifting generational preferences and evolving consumer expectations around convenience and quality will help shape the next chapter.
Demand drivers. Even without a worldwide pandemic, economic shutdowns and disruptions in food processing, Dan Basse would have covered demand drivers at the 15th annual Feeding Quality Forum.
America’s pig farmers produced a record-breaking number of market hogs in 2016, resulting in ample supplies of pork at the retail meat case and in restaurants.
Beef prices around the world will steady in the midterm, though a further significant price increase could trigger substitution with other meats, according to Rabobank's Q2 2011 Beef Quarterly Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory (FAR) report.
Two-and-a-half years out from the start of what some are calling “The Great Recession,” it appears that economic growth is inching its way into the lexicon once again. That bodes