Hopefully good news for farmers and beef.

[SmokinAussie]

G'Day Bruces!

This article popped across my news feed today.

Trump pledges to allow cattle ranchers to process own food amid beef imports backlash

President faces criticism over plan to import up to 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef without charging higher tariffs

www.theguardian.com

I really hope this can break the meat processing cartel you have there.

Farmers should be able to process their own produce and not be held to ransom by the big 4. I don't think it will mean cheaper beef at the checkout, but perhaps if the farmers get rewarded for what they do, you'll get better American beef and your heard numbers will rise.

How it effects me in Australia. We send so much beef to the US and China, our prices are way too high and we also have the big processors here too. It's not a good thing.

Bill

 

[normanaj]

I predict this thread won't end well.

 

[Chasdev]

30,000 lbs from Argentina just recalled...
Where's the beef?
As to the "cartel", cattle populations are a small fraction of what they were even a decade ago.
I'm far from an expert but the farmers I've seen speaking on the TV talk about the lack of water, hence cost of feed plus middleman markups being the main causes of shortages and retail prices.

 

[chopsaw]

30,000 lbs from Argentina just recalled..

Yup , there goes man babies proffit .