part-time labor and now it is $25, tough finding somebody who wants to work period. go back to this bail-out money, they can sit home and get a check in the mailbox. when you come out to a ranch and walk around each part of the ranch and see how each part is a cost that goes up when inflation is rising, like it is now, you get to see a sense of how the local rancher is squeezed. why doesn t dc understand that? i don t know, we ve lost half a million cattle producers in the industry in the past decades and that hasn t phased them. consumers went to the grocery store and found beef shelves empty. it is over $5 for a pound of hamburger meat, $5. when you hear the presidency say, i didn t know beef is this high, how confident can you be he understands scope of the problem. there is a belief in washington that what is good for
years where the american rancher is not receiving the cost of production from the marketplace itself. they simply will not survive. todd: the cost of fuel hitting you too. last year i contracted for $2 a gallon. people say it s going to get better. you say it s going to get a lot worse? i don t see it going down any. todd: one of the costs that s skyrocketing right now is labor. walk me through what a worker cost just last year and what it costs this year? pretty much you could get somebody hired for 12, 13 bucks, you know, part time labor. and now it s, you know, 25. it s just tough finding somebody who wants to work, period. you want to go back to this bailout money that they can sit at home and get a check in the mailbox. when you come out to a ranch like this and you walk around each part of the ranch, and you see how each part is a cost that goes up when inflation is rising like it is now, you really get to see a sense of how the local rancher is squeezed. why doesn t