How Beef Got So Expensive

牛肉为何如此昂贵

The Journal.

2026-06-11

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In the era of the $100 steak, WSJ reporter Patrick Thomas traveled from a steakhouse in Omaha to a manure-splattered cattle auction in the Nebraska sandhills. What he found was a story about drought, debt and a stunning reversal of fortune that has left America's ranchers holding more power than they've had in decades. Ryan Knutson hosts. Further Listening: - The Beef Between Cattle Ranchers and Meatpackers  - How Scotts Miracle-Gro's Weed Business Went Up in Smoke Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Omaha, Nebraska, six o'clock dinner reservation.

  • The Thomas family, party of six, is settling into one of the great old school steak houses in the Midwest.

  • It's the kind of place with low lighting, heavy chairs.

  • The room smells like brown butter and seared beef fat.

  • Old timey.

  • It's kind of got the wooden exterior.

  • The floors are creaking when you walk in.

  • That's our colleague Patrick Thomas, as in the Thomas family, party of six.

  • You've kind of got that Brassie Sinatra type of music, Old World type of steakhouse.

  • I'm going to go from the most tender all the way up to our most heavily marbled cut.

  • So our most tender cut here will be the filet.

  • So what brought you to that steakhouse in Nebraska?

  • My family still lives out there.

  • My brother was actually graduating high school.

  • Oh, wow.

  • Congratulations.

  • Here's Ryan's Graduation.

  • I heard his name was Ryan.

  • It's another Ryan.

  • What a great name.