Wheres The Beef? Youre Not Going To Believe The New Record High Price With apologies to Wendys Hamburgers and that mayoral candidate in New York City, forget the rent. The price of ground beef is just too darn high. Over $4 per pound. The average price of a pound of ground beef climbed to another record high $4.235 per pound in the United States in January, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The CNS News article quoted did not specify the fat content of said beef, so there is no indication of it being ground chuck vs. ground sirloin, but given the low price compared to what this writer has seen in the grocery stores lately, it has to have a high fat content. (Which is nasty to work with after its been frozen. But, since this is what is available during meat sales.) The price of beef has been rising steadily for a number of years now, a by-product of droughts in cattle country and some really dumb court decisions allowing precious irrigation water to be used to save the endangered Delta Smelt, essentially a minnow used for bait. (My fisherman cousins stomp on minnows if they find them in a lake.) Check out the pain at the grocery scanner we Americans have been experiencing. Given the economic conditions of ranching these days, it is most understandable that so many in the business have either given up or reduced their herds to a start over stock, but this staple of healthy living and nutrition no matter what the government has to say, is really putting a crimp in buying power. The price of hamburger has risen 19%. The end of the age of Obama cant happen soon enough. 