Australia is closer so they would save on shipping costs.

The MAGA answer is they think beef is going to get cheaper in the US. They don't quite make the connection that farmers want higher prices for it to remain profitable. Ranch land is expensive in the US.

I hope the leopards don’t get too much face meat. Didn’t they learn when Trump lost the sorghum
market to China in his first term.



Sadly, the American people will get to bail them all out and not with “Trump’s Tariff Surplus.”

I'm talking about those foreign farmers and ranchers. Domestic farmers and ranchers are getting destroyed.

First they came for the farmers, and the MAGA's did nothing,

Now they have come for the Ranchers, and the MAGA's did nothing.....

Soon they will come for the other groups of MAGA's and there will be No MAGA's left to do anything about it......

Republican/Trump Inc.... is starting to go after their Voters and Corporations that put them into office, now that they both have outgrown their usefulness...............

Maybe at some point we will see large demonstrations in cities, with bonfires, and all of them throwing in their RED MAGA Ball caps....

and ranchers saying that even though they're being hurt economically, they still support Trump.

Let them die with no vaccines.
And let them die because guns are more important than people.

So yes they will vote for him no matter what.

Of course when their properties are foreclosed, and their family is living in a trailer park they might have a change of heart.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/18/nx-s1-5534424/beef-prices-record-high-cost

Why beef prices are higher than ever (and shoppers are finally resisting)

(snip)
How has the price changed since before the pandemic?
Up 51% since February 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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In July, the U.S. Department of Agriculture continued to record a shrinking number of U.S. cattle and calves, forecasting that beef production would decline 4% over this year and another 2% in 2026.

Meanwhile, foreign imports are also down. Brazilian beef faces a 76% tariff. Fears about the screwworm parasite have led the USDA to block livestock from crossing from Mexico to the U.S. to safeguard the nation's food supply.
(snip)

Repopulation is still going very slowly — for new reasons. Facing ever-higher operations costs, ranchers are leery of investing in an expansion. And the record values that cattle can fetch mean that it's often more profitable to sell young females (called heifers) for meat than to keep them for breeding.
(snip)

But...you MAGA's out in the sticks keep telling yourselves how you somehow "owned the Libs" when Fat Hitler won again.

I expect those beef tarrifs to be dropped quickly. I also expect beef prices here to drop dramatically because of the glut.

They have already instituted a near total ban on US soybeans; beef is in the mix, too.

Ultimately, China is demonstrating that Trump's initial claim behind ALL the tariffs (i.e., that trade with China is unfair) is not true. China pumps billions into US agricultural markets, and can withhold those billions as well.

Big gain for Brazilian soybeans and Australian beef.

Oh well.

It used to be that just about all of the sorghum produced in America was already sold before it was
planted to China but now Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria, India, Australia, and some other nations have taken
America’s place in the growing and the selling of sorghum to China.

Btw sorghum is a great crop because it doesn’t need irrigation. I hope those Trump voting sorghum
farmers in the Great Plains all get hurt badly but Trump will use U.S. tax dollars to bail them out all
the time lying that the money is coming from “the tariff surplus.”

Got'cha.

Beef production is a major contributor to climate change

IF you tariff the beef market out of existence, you dont need the workers you deported.

Now, if he just holds strong and completes the destruction of all other US economic interests, all the immigrants, educated folk, and elites will self deport, and the country can be more easily brought to heel under whatever technical form of government they decide to replace democracy with.

Easy peasy.

Poor Magats.

Otherwise it's ... what's that term they always like to use ... a

MORAL HAZARD

Since that beef has to go somewhere. Still, beef producers will take a financial hit. And if some were running on thin margins, they could take a loss.

availability and many other factors. Disrupting one aspect can have a tsunami like ripple effect on the entire commodity. We are seeing this in more and more products daily. Price follows supply or lack thereof. The brown stuff has just started hitting the fan but the blades are turning fast. Look out.

Prices for beef continue to skyrocket.