Price gouging of retail meat prices to end consumer above the low price the cattlemen are getting may be at historically high amounts... http://www.barchart.com/commodityfutures/Meats Many cattlemen get less than the propped future prices when taking cattle to auction... And up to 80% of cash cattle auction trade on any given day may be cattle buyers moving inventory down the line and not the low percentage amount of actual cattlemen selling beef... Don't blame the US Cattlemen for current meat aisle price gouging...LJ