What's behind Canada's soaring beef prices? | The Current

An Alberta cattle producer, who has been steering his herd through years of drought, says it feels pretty good to have more 'jingle in his jeans' with record high beef prices. A Winnipeg butcher says his customers are still willing to fork over big bucks for the right cut. We speak with Sylvain Charlebois, a professor and senior director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University and a visiting scholar at McGill University about what’s fuelling Canada’s soaring beef prices — and how that can change.

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