date:Jul 04, 2012
buy more pork and chicken to meet their budgets. Local Indiana Kroger stores have seen an increase in lamb, fried and roasted chicken sales. But shoppers also tend to compensate by buying lower-cost beef products or purchasing store-brand items.
On a national scale, beef herds are at their lowest level since 1952. Even Indiana, which is home to only approximately 0.7 percent of the US beef cattle supply, has had its beef ranks thinned by 31,000 since 2002, and by 322,000 since 1980, USDA report