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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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[–] IndridCold@lemmy.ca 2 points 37 minutes ago

BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!

Idiots.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 3 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 1 hour ago

It’s good but pretty expensive.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 27 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Seems a bit woke, honestly.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Australia isn't woke, it has crocodiles!

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago
[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 71 points 8 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.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 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 3 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 35 minutes ago

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

[–] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 43 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

It's clearly Joe Biden's fault.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 3 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 2 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

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 11 points 6 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 21 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] dublet@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

Bike fall meme

"Democrats did this"

[–] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 14 points 7 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 4 hours ago

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

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 19 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

That's socialism, LOL.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] suigenerix@lemmy.world 1 points 44 minutes 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.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 12 points 6 hours ago

Create the problem and sell them the solution kinda guy.

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 52 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Ahahahaha America is the land of complete douchebaggery!!!

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 37 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

The previous, idiotic conservative government of Australia did a lot of harm to the relationship between China and Australia. For some reason they wanted to suck up to 'Murican conservatives by pissing of China pointlessly

Albo and his team have worked wonders, and it's fantastic to see Australia benefit from American stupidity

It's going to take a LOT to undo the damage that Trump has done, and is continuing to do

[–] Affidavit@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

The best thing Australia could do is to abandon both America and China as major trade partners. Both countries have shown they are unreliable and will use their market power as a weapon.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

It’s going to take a LOT to undo the damage that Trump has done, and is continuing to do

I don't think it will ever be fully undone. The willingness of the American people to put near-dictatorial power in the hands of one man is not something that our allies and trading partners are ever going to forget. (Not to mention that one man is very clearly suffering from dementia.)

It was a good 80-year run, but Donald and this Congress have irrevocably tarnished the American brand by allowing lawlessness and madness to rule unfettered.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, I'm talking about an entire generation, it's going to be at least a couple of decades.

That's if the US doesn't really fall apart and become a pariah state for a very long time

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

America's pre-Trump position was due to them being the only major power left standing after World War II. After the rest of the world rebuilt, it maintained its dominant position mostly through inertia. The damage Trump is doing will never be undone, because the status quo that he's destroying didn't come about naturally; they were the result of very specific circumstances that aren't going to repeat (I mean, a global war might, but not one that leaves the United States unscathed.)

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 18 points 8 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 5 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 14 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

"Good news, everyone!"

Trump the comical Farnsworth of the real United States.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 9 points 8 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.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Cassanderer@thelemmy.club 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 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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