GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — You may notice higher meat prices during your next grocery pickup.
COVID-19 has hit the meat industry hard across the country with several processing plants, including JBS Packerland locally, shutting down briefly during the pandemic.
“It is creating this bottleneck situation where we have a lot of animals and not enough capacity,” Dr. Jeffrey Sindelar, Associate Professor and Meat Specialist at the University of Wisconsin, told WTAQ’s ‘The Morning News with Matt and Earl’. “We’re not seeing the products getting to… grocery stores.”
Dr. Sindelar says stores are bumping up prices and limiting purchases to control supply.
“You only have so much, how do you get it to as many of the people, as many of the customers as possible?” said Sindelar.
Meat limitations, he says are designed to ensure that T-Bone steaks don’t become the next Toilet Paper.
Meat prices across the US have spiked in recent days. President Trump recently signed an executive order to keep meat processors open as part of the essential supply chain, but temporary shut downs are still impacting the industry.
JBS Packerland re-opened earlier this month.
