Meat providers feel strain of panic-buying, worker shortage

Meat markets, meat distributors and farmers say people should not panic about the meat supply.

Worker shortages at meatpacking plants due to COVID-19 and a surge of panic-buying is putting a strain on meat providers.

THAT COUNTY'S TALLY ISSECOND ONLY TOWYANDOTTE COUNTY.AND WE'RE HEARINGWARNINGS OF TROUBLEWITH THE MEAT SUPPLY --AS SOME GROCERYSTORES LIMIT MEATPURCHASES.41 ACTION NEWSREPORTER SARAH PLAKESHOWS US -- IF A MEATSHORTAGE IS IN OURFUTURE.Meat markets, meatdistributors and farmers wantto tell you to stop panicking,that our meat supply will beback to the way it was by theend of the month.

And rightnow may be a good time tosupport our smaller farmersand businesses too.Worker shortages atmeatpacking plants due toCOVID-19 and a surge ofpanic-buying is putting a strainon meat providers.NATS: come and get it!KC Cattle Company out ofWeston is having a hard timekeeping up with demand..many of their wagyu beefproducts are selling out withina couple hours.Our supply chain is probably alittle better off because we usethe smaller processors, sothey're less population denseso less chance of covid 19walking through their frontdoor.We have enough animals..just not as many workers toprocess them.There's also the alternative ofhelping out your farmers whoare really taking a beatingfrom the commodity market inthe last 6 weeks because ofcovid 19..Smaller markets are seeingmore customers because thebigger grocery stores arewiped out.Bichelmeyer Meats in KCKsays they are stocked..however it's still a stressfultime.We see a reduction in price offthe farm, but yet we see anincrease in price from thepacking industry, and this isone of the things that isdifficult to understand from mypoint of view.Bichelmeyer says shoppersmay have to change up theirshopping habits to get throughthis.We are requesting people buymaybe a couple of weekssupply, no more.That's kind of a temporary fix,I kind of think things will beback to normal within the next