Getting your player ready...
DENVER—A deal for Wyoming’s Northern Arapaho Tribe to sell organic, grass-fed beef to Whole Foods has fallen through.
California-based Panorama Meats Inc., which bought the beef from the tribe and sold it to Whole Foods, said Wednesday the agreement ended in March when tribal officials asked for a 29 percent price increase.
Officials of the tribe and Whole Foods didn’t immediately return phone messages.
Panorama was buying about 40 head per week from the tribe for Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods.
The deal, struck in April 2009, called for the tribe to get $1,400 per head. Panorama says that was about 25 percent more than conventional beef fetches.
Panorama says it found other ranches to supply beef for Whole Foods.
