The price of beef rises, minus the roast on offer

The price of beef will have an estimated increase of between $12 to $15 per kilo for all bone-in cuts starting this Wednesday or early Thursdayconfirmed to The Observer various butchers.

This is a consequence of an increase of $8 per kilo in the half carcass that refrigerators and other suppliers began to apply this Tuesday during their placements in retail stores.

The bone-in cuts whose demand increases in the colder months, starting in autumn, are the shoulder and the needle; in both cases, on average, you will now have to pay about $370 per kilo, although that can vary by $10 to $20 more or less depending on the butcher.

The adjustment is the first to happen after the end of the one-month period agreed between the government and the refrigerators in which, despite the fact that the price of livestock remained firm, there were no adjustments in the values that the retailer or the consumer had to pay.

Previously, from mid-January to mid-March, the price of beef increased by an average of 25%the butchers recalled.

In this last month there was a cut of beef that even had a significant reduction, the asado, due to the reduction by law of VAT (10%) decided by the government and an additional downward adjustment that the suppliers applied. In this way, the butchers receive the roast for less than $220 a kilo and sell it for $230. To reach that price, the butchers also gave up trying to reach a reasonable profit margin.

Before, the average price of that same roast, with the same quality, was around $300 a kilo.

Also another commitment was agreed: to maintain the quality of the product.

What was left in the debt, the butchers themselves denounced, is that the offer was always available throughout the national territory.

this benefit, the roast at $230 a kilo, as announced by President Luis Lacalle Pou, will be extended for the only timefor 30 more days from the next few hours.

Diego Battiste

The demand for beef increased while the price did not increase.

They warn about lack of roast

In another order, the butchers warn that given the increase in the sale of roasts in this period with the offer price, which in some cases reached 50% compared to what is usual at this time of year, It is possible that near the end of the month there will be a shortage, on the eve of the May 1 holiday, which is when the vast majority of butcher shops make the biggest sale of that cut in the yearsomething comparable only to what happens during the year-end holidays.