I mean at $5/lb for brisket, im already out...

I have a freezer full of venison…I’m good.

That's (by my crummy math)...20 pound brisket, 8oz per serving. $2.50 not including charcoal and or wood cost, sauce, power for the freezer, and the storage bags.

Round it to ~$2.90 to be safe.

Me Too

Unless you guys own your own place and you don't feed, that venison cost you a whole lot more than beef would.

Ranchers have been doing fine

Interesting fact. The screw worm is originally native to the US and central America but eventually spread south to South America. In the 1950's scientist genetically modified screwworms so the males would be sterile. They began an eradication campaign and wiped them out in the US and Mexico. They are still prevalent in South America though. Since then, the US has been dropping millions of sterile male fly larva over Panama. This has effectively blocked norther migration since the 1990's. Although, apparently they've now managed to make it back into Mexico.

Well with all of the newcomers coming across the border, we now have Chickenpox back (eliminated in the US in 2015), a tuberculosis outbreak 2023 and now screw worms headed this way. Biden's gift just keeps on giving.

Unless you guys own your own place and you don't feed, that venison cost you a whole lot more than beef would.

As I drive around this part of the state I ponder how many head have been taken off inventory for the family farm that’s now an apartment complex or some 5000 square foot house in the middle of ten acres.