Meat demand up in 2022, despite higher prices

According to Brenda Boetel, University of Wisconsin-River Falls livestock and meat professor and Extension commodity marketing specialist who spoke at the annual UW Ag Outlook Forum Jan. 24 in Madison, poultry accounted for a whopping 51% of the meat consumed in the U.S. last year. According to USDA, consumers on average ate about 227 pounds of poultry, beef and pork in 2022, despite higher prices for all meat. Breaking it down by meat type, in 2022, Americans ate 59 pounds of beef, 51 pounds of pork and 115 pounds of poultry — 100 pounds of chicken and 14 pounds of turkey. That means as a nation, we are eating more poultry than beef and pork combined! Read more