Agriculture Secretary Brooke Gollins joins ‘Morning with Maria’ to discuss meat prices, soybean deals full of soybeans and the complex crackdown on Washington’s snap fraud.
US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke was pushed back on predicting that Americans could soon pay for the beef plan, tell prices next summer – and keep them low until 2026.
“The Trump administration has issued a new plan. We are moving forward to opening five acres of edible land,” USDA’s rollins told “maria” on Monday. “And the President is hyper, hyper-focused on this. So our numbers and our formulas show that rates are going to start going down as soon as next spring, and for sure.”
On Friday, Omaha Steaks’ CEO, Nate Rempe, said that the country is shrinking due to the reduction of cattle and the demand for the record is driving “$10-per-per-port” that can remain in the family budget for years.
“We’re headed for what I call… The $10-AA-PUDREAL. It’s [the] In the third quarter of ’26, households will see $10 a pound [for] beef in the restaurant. So we are still being dragged here, “said Remphe.” I don’t believe we will see the price[s] come down in any reasonable way until sometime in 2027. “
Omaha Steaks CEO Warns American Families Will Soon Face ‘$10-A-Pound’ Beef
Beef prices are at record highs after drought left US CATTLE STUNEDS at 70-year low. According to the latest consumer index data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, beef and veal prices rose 14.7% year-over-year in September, while raw beef was up 12.9%.
Packages of meat are seen at a grocery store in Houston, Texas, on May 15, 2025. (Pet Pictures)
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’ latest reading shows the average US price per pound of beef is $6.30.
“He was very well spoken. I believe, however, that his prediction will not be correct,” Rollins replied. “But the idea that we’re not going to get prices down until 2027, I think there are a couple of important factors here.”
“We’re having a very real management battle over cows. If you remember, they wanted to reduce the size of cows because they believed that cows caused climate change,” he began to explain. “The second thing is that there’s no question, because of the drought … that we’re at a lower herd size. Now you marry that with the fact that we have an increase in protein and beef in the market. People want more beef.”
Omaha Steaks president and CEO Nate Remple weighed in on beef prices ahead of the holidays, arguing that the US needs to ‘rebuild the herd.’
“And, you’re in this perfect storm that we’re in.”
The Trump administration on Friday announced several trade deals that could lead to reduced tariffs on certain goods, including the sale of beef from Argentina. The cooperation framework with Argentina includes lower tariff rates in Argentina for beef but does not increase the rate of the United States’ address, FOX business was predicted earlier.
Rep. Troy Downing, R-MONT., also joined “Morning Maria” on Monday, where he discussed high beef prices and voiced support for fast-track House measures.
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Congressman Troy retreats, R-MONT., to join the ‘Morning Maria’ to discuss the price of the burning economy, high beef prices and the President’s $ 2,000 aid program with a growing income program.
“One of the concerns, coming from the meat industry, is that we get beef prices high enough that people start looking for other proteins,” Dhodi said. “We really need to focus on getting that American herd back.”
“I think this is a temporary temporary fix to try to get to the real goal of – How do we get the American herd back? [for] Low beef, because at that time, families on budgets will stop buying beef … and it will be really hard for the industry to crawl back from that. “
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