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How Beef Got So Expensive

The Journal. by The Wall Street Journal

Jun 10, 202620:32News & Politics

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...

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How Beef Got So Expensive is an episode from The Journal. by The Wall Street Journal. 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 sandhi...

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Published Jun 10, 2026, 20:32 long, audio available.