How Beef Got So Expensive
Wall Street Journal
— · 20min
In the era of the $100 steak, WSJ reporter Patrick Thomas traveled from a steakhouse in Omaha to a manure-splattered cattle auction in the Nebraska sandhills.
What he found was a story about drought, debt and a stunning reversal of fortune that has left America's ranchers holding more power than they've had in decades.
Ryan Knutson hosts.
Further Listening:
- The Beef Between Cattle Ranchers and Meatpackers
- How Scotts Miracle-Gro's Weed Business Went Up in Smoke
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