If you’ve been to the grocery store lately you’ve undoubtedly seen the soaring prices of meat or maybe you’ve seen the limitations being placed on the amount of meat you can purchase.  We’re even hearing about how thousands of pigs rot in compost as the U.S. faces this meat shortage.  So, how can this be?  How can we be facing a meat shortage as producers are facing lower prices and having to destroy their livestock?  Dr. David Anderson, Professor and Extension Agricultural Economist with Texas A&M University joins us to explain the situation.

 

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