AGRICULTURE NEWS - Cash-strapped South African consumers will have to dig deep into their pockets if they are looking to splurge on red meat and pork this December.
Prices of these meat categories are currently the strongest they have been in years, and experts expect this trend to continue into December and possibly for some time beyond.
Paul Makube, senior agricultural economist at FNB, said that “for the first time”, the producer price of A-grade beef had breached the R50/kg mark, and was more than 15% above the prices achieved at the same time last year.
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