Pork and chicken may get into short supply,

hawkdon said:
due to news of Missouri pork farms being closed (china) and chicken processors
being closed too.....wish I had a freezer to stock up.....
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You know what I do. I get a rotisserie chicken from Costco, take all the meat off, freeze it in baggies that are about the right size portion for making a dinner, and whenever I want chicken for dinner, whether it's in a stir fry, chicken enchiladas, chicken salad sandwiches, or whatever, I don't have to cook it. It's ready for whatever you want. You can't buy a chicken and cook it yourself for their price, and it tastes great.
P.S. I put the small bags of chicken in one larger gallon bag and label it with the date.
 
bobcat48 said:
You know what I do. I get a rotisserie chicken from Costco, take all the meat off, freeze it in baggies that are about the right size portion for making a dinner, and whenever I want chicken for dinner, whether it's in a stir fry, chicken enchiladas, chicken salad sandwiches, or whatever, I don't have to cook it. It's ready for whatever you want. You can't buy a chicken and cook it yourself for their price, and it tastes great.
P.S. I put the small bags of chicken in one larger gallon bag and label it with the date.
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Arenā€™t their rotisserie chickens wonderful.
Apparently they lose money selling these but they do it so their warehouses always smell good , plus many come into the store just to pick up some chickens and then stay to purchase other things.
Those chicken are really worth it. Thatā€™s a good idea. I still find them very salty though. I really like Costco.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
Arenā€™t their rotisserie chickens wonderful.
Apparently they lose money selling these but they do it so their warehouses always smell good , plus many come into the store just to pick up some chickens and then stay to purchase other things.
Those chicken are really worth it. Thatā€™s a good idea. I still find them very salty though. I really like Costco.
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Love 'em. You don't have to rotisserie the chicken, do the clean up, or anything. Sometimes I put a little gravy with it and make a hot chicken sandwich, or chicken spaghetti, or chicken casseroles. It cuts dinner time in half.
 
Quote- ā€œChina is the largest global consumer of pork, producing and consuming about half of all pork in the world,ā€ he said. ā€œAs a result of the swine fever epidemic, it has culled a very large number of hogs, depleting its supply and necessitating imports. Lean hog prices have reacted accordingly.ā€

Rhind said he believes the latest weekly pork purchase by China is a record. The purchase comes despite Chinaā€™s hefty tariffs on imports of the commodity from the U.S.

So far this year, the U.S. has shipped 46,400 metric tons of pork to China versus 15,600 this time last year, said Ned Schmidt, editor of the Agri-Food Value View, an investment newsletter for agriculturally produced commercial food. China has orders for another for another 96,500 metric tons versus 4,900 last year, he added.
 
againstthegrain said:
So far this year, the U.S. has shipped 46,400 metric tons of pork to China versus 15,600 this time last year, said Ned Schmidt, editor of the Agri-Food Value View, an investment newsletter for agriculturally produced commercial food. China has orders for another for another 96,500 metric tons versus 4,900 last year, he added.
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Thanks, that does explain things.
hearlady said:
So we get the hog waste while they get the pork?
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We, and they get what we pay for. Looks like the Chinese are willing to pay more for the pork than we are.
hollydolly said:
We don't get our pork and chicken from the USA.. so it won't affect us...
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In today's global market I suspect a shortage of Chinese pork will impact us all. Same for chicken.
 
Shortages? Letā€™s wait and see. IIRC, we are supposed to be in a recession at this time. That is another prediction that did not come true,

In any case, somebody somewhere else will raise more pork and chickens. Econ 101.
 
We live in a rural area with lots of chicken farms. When the Avian flu hit, a couple of years ago, the chicken farms had to pretty much stop growing chickens, and the price of eggs doubled. Now these farms seem to have recovered, and the chicken trucks are running frequently to the processing plant again, and the price of eggs is back down to near normal.
 

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