The prices of bone-in beef, and that of some boneless cuts, fell last week and butchers do not rule out that they will continue to fallreported to The Observer Alfonso Fontenla, president of the Union of Meat Vendors (UVC).
Depending on the cut, the trade, the equation of each butcher and the sales flow of each butcher shop, the drop was between $6 and $10 per kiloexplained the merchant.
Several reasons
The fall in price occurred “by several edges”Fontenla explained. first by the drop in the price of cattle for slaughter that, together with “a dollar that remains stable and even falling”, has helped the trend deepen for some cuts.
Added to this is the drop in export levels of Uruguayan meat to China, something that has also driven down prices, Fontenla said. According to the president of the UCV, These value adjustments have nothing to do with the entry of the roast with bone imported from Brazil.
The most wanted meats
The demand for beef is sustained and the drop in prices has not yet translated into a rise in customer interest. In the case of poultry and pork, both are in great demand, the butcher pointed out. The avian, on the one hand, has “a lot of sales” among customers, which is due to its competitive prices; and pork is a product that has “very tempting prices,” Fontenla commented, which makes customers continue to choose it.
