LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — If you've been inside a meat market recently, you've probably noticed that prices on the rise.

Local butchers tell me meat costs keep going up, especially beef. Beef prices on the rise, how local butchers are adapting to higher costs

“We got a tri-tip here, choice tri-tip," said The Butcher Shop owner Ron Lutz. “Those have gone up about $2 a pound over the last year. Then we got choice New Yorks, choice ribeyes, choice bone-in ribeyes and choice filets, and those are bouncing in about a dollar over the last year.”

It's a problem Lutz tells me he doesn't see slowing down anytime soon.

“Yeah then by Christmas it may be up to $2 a pound more," he said.

I asked him how significant a price increase like that would be.

"That’s a lot, you buy a 20lb ribeye at $2 a poun

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