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Australian beef has replaced U.S. supply in China since Donald Trump returned to the White House, funnelling hundreds of millions of dollars that have in previous years gone to the U.S. cattle industry into Australian pockets.

U.S. shipments to China, worth around $120 million a month, collapsed after Beijing in March allowed permits to expire at hundreds of American meat facilities and as Trump unleashed a tit-for-tat tariff war.

Other U.S. farm exports to China, the world's biggest food importer, have also suffered since Trump retook power. On soybeans alone, U.S. farmers have lost out on shipments worth billions of dollars during the current harvest season.

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[–] rayyy@piefed.social 81 points 15 hours ago (8 children)

"U.S. farmers have lost out on shipments worth billions of dollars"

Wait until this sinks in to the farmer's heads. Next year farmers will fully experience the rotten fruits of the current administration.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] dublet@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago
[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 47 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Thanks to Republican education cuts and propaganda, they're dumb as shit and won't put two and two together

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Farmers and ranchers are well aware Trump is to blame. They know who buys their products and why those customers are not buying now.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 28 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Will they completely forget it the moment they get near a voting booth is the better question.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

It's clearly Joe Biden's fault.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

i've never known a farmer to stay in the business long if they were dumb as shit. politically naive? sure. growing crops isn't as simple as scattering seeds and waiting.

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago

Oh I know they have the capacity to be smart I'm saying their systemically disadvantaged preventing them from acting in their best interest in this instance

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 19 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Trump is already promising to bail out the farmers with the money from tariffs next year.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 18 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, It's what he did the last time he destroyed soybean exports.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 13 points 13 hours ago

Create the problem and sell them the solution kinda guy.

[–] suigenerix@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

A lot of farms still went under, but mostly small ones.

Worse was that farmer-suicide rates rose significantly. Imagine having a tarrif policy that knowingly killed many people first time round, so the second time you dial it up to 10.

It was sad seeing farmers, who lost farms that had been in their family for generations, on the news saying they'd still vote for Trump.

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, so it's a Ponzi scheme then on top of everything else?

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6 points 12 hours ago

it’s a Ponzi scheme on top of a Ponzi scheme

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

That's socialism, LOL.

[–] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

And ALL that farmland will be gathered up by “Govt approved corporations”. Then they’ll produce the food after paying shit to the former workers, as well as shit prices for the land.

Like gathering up butterflies…

How’s your Trump now, bitches?

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

That, and making heavy use of the 13th amendment to work the farm.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 11 points 9 hours ago

They won't care. Trump will tell them it was Obama (because he will forget to say Biden).

[–] biscuit@lemdro.id 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Most of them won't have enough critical thinking skills to realise what happened. They'll just blame whoever Fox or Tiktok tells them to blame.

[–] IndridCold@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

Suicide rates are climbing with US farmers. Some of them get it at the end of the day.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

They already know and are begging Trump for help. They're also suffering for lack of immigrant workers.

[–] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Not all US farmers are Republicans and voted for Trump, though.