With These Prices, There's Likely to be Less Beef on the Grill This Summer

Beef prices hit all-time high in U.S. (Los Angeles Times, 4/10/2014)

Less beef in our diet is likely to be part of the new normal.   Extreme weather has thinned the nation's beef cattle herds to levels last seen in 1951, when there were about half as many mouths to feed in America. 

For a longer historical view, I had to use the retail price of beef, as "all-fresh" was first reported by the USDA in July 1987.