There is a national increase in meat prices, especially for beef.

The United States cattle inventory is at its lowest in decades.

Additionally, high feed costs and a decline in imported meat are also contributing to the price increase.

We visited a local meat store to see how they are dealing with the supply and demand imbalance.

Gerry Urbaniak, owner of Urbaniak Brothers Quality Meat, said, "The demand has been very strong for the past four or five years, and beef raisers just can't seem to grow enough beef to catch up because it takes five years to grow a cattle from when it's born to when you can use it. Turkey prices this year, unfortunately, have been subjected to the avian flu, so they lost about five million turkeys this year."

Urbaniaks said that they will continue to source t

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