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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 85 points 20 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 53 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] dublet@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago
[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 50 points 19 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 18 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 30 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago
[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

It's clearly Joe Biden's fault.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 15 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.

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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 19 points 20 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 19 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 13 points 18 hours ago

Create the problem and sell them the solution kinda guy.

[–] suigenerix@lemmy.world 3 points 12 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 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

That's socialism, LOL.

[–] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 14 points 19 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 16 hours ago

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

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 13 points 14 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 15 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.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

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

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[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 58 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Have noticed Australia is also replacing the US here in Canada as well.

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Getting loads of amazing New Zealand apples in Canada now instead of ones from the US. They’re very good! 😊

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 42 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It makes sense, Australia is much closer. Congratulations to Trump on being so eco-conscious.

[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Seems a bit woke, honestly.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Australia isn't woke, it has crocodiles!

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Notoriously sleepy reptiles.

Also koalas, arguably the least woke mammals on earth.

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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 24 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

RIP Beef prices here (Australia) for a few years.

Demand will outstrip supply and as always, we'll come second to the export market.

Hopefully this demand is the new normal and not just a bubble, otherwise it's just high prices for nothing.

[–] Affidavit@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

Don't worry, the next time we 'hurt the feelings of the Chinese people' things will be back to normal.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 20 points 14 hours ago

Good. The tears of the ranchers next will be sweet.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 13 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

"Good news, everyone!"

Trump the comical Farnsworth of the real United States.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago

Right after ceding the global ev market to china. The guy is a jeenius.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

This is the first thing Trump has done that actually could lower grocery prices.

[–] Cassanderer@thelemmy.club 13 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

It won't though because supply and demand are not equal countervailing forces, all of supply is controlled by a literal handful of agribusiness conglomerates. The ranchers themselves are being squeezed for decades now, the three large Meat Packing houses on the other hand are making money hand over fist.

Prices are high because of price fixing, because of illegal trusts that the government has not enforced for decades. It worked with eggs, as long as they have someone to blame it on.

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[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

US cattle inventory is at a 70 year low anyways.

https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/h702q636h/nz807x85h/1g05hb55x/catl0725.pdf

Meaning we couldn't keep up with global markets anyways. Let other countries take on the ecological destruction that comes with trying to export meat. Every have a feed lot next to your water supply or a processing plant in your town? We need to fall back to smaller domestic market where local butchers are actually needed to supply their communities and not large grocery stores.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Listen dude, if you want to get the uparrows you gotta say how this hurts America, maybe a little #fucktrump, et cetera.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Uhhhhhh what. America not selling beef over seas hurts America in the short term. That's too much beef for just America. Our beef is worse quality anyways.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

i hear argentine beef is really good, but i haven't been out there to try it.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

It’s good but pretty expensive.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago

In another year, when all of the post-tariff trade agreements are completed, we're going to be ceding a whole lot more than that.

Not that Donald will give a shit. He'll have added 5-10 billion to his personal net worth by that point, and that's all he cares about.

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe this will mean red meat will finally get cheaper.

Oh wait, no it won't, we will just lose all that meat and money. Taxpayers will have to foot the bill for Republicans like always.

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[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

The leopards will be feasting on farmer face (again)

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Ahahahaha America is the land of complete douchebaggery!!!

[–] gonf@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

So in the past couple of weeks, MAGA has been Make Argentina Great Again and now Make Australia Great Again.

I wonder what Trump is gonna fuck up next week so that Azerbaijan can swoop in to start selling to China.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 hours ago

...and its soy market to South America.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago
[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I don't care.This is actually better for the environment.With a smaller ecological footprint.

This is america where we pay our farmers to grow stuff that they can't sell. And we think we like it this way

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago

This is america where we pay our farmers to grow stuff that they can't sell. And we think we like it this way

We pay them to do that so we have a surplus so we all don't starve... every country does this so if there is a bad year, you don't have farmers stopping production because they can't survive and have to sell everything.

No clue why they vote red though, considering they get a ton of subsidizes.

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