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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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[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 2 points 52 minutes ago

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.

[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 1 points 38 minutes ago

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

Oh the ag. collapse could be, at the very least, interesting.

Bad enough that the lions share of the industry will need major handouts, or more likely that farm after farm will be bought out for land-lease to former owners, and then given handouts to offset purchase price. But, the midwest corporate cash crop farms have been fighting tooth and nail against soil conservation methods just to squeeze a few extra bucks out.

I so hope we don't end up getting into another dust bowl.

I'd highly recommend folks look at keeping up a community garden or two if possible, or helping out at one if not.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 18 points 4 hours ago

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

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

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

Idiots.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 points 4 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 3 hours ago

It’s good but pretty expensive.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 32 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Seems a bit woke, honestly.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Australia isn't woke, it has crocodiles!

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

Notoriously sleepy reptiles.

Also koalas, arguably the least woke mammals on earth.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago
[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 8 points 6 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 2 points 1 hour 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 2 points 41 minutes ago (1 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.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 points 31 minutes ago

My preferred beef, personally, is from local farms, and so I'm all about the idea about smaller farms. I'd be lying if I said I didn't buy from factory farms, chicken, beef, and pork, but I try to go local when possible.

Although as I'm writing this, I'm really not sure if local meats and their prices are affected much by the factory farms.

So yeah, I guess all I mean is that I'm totally cool with an America that has fewer factory farms, the operations, from top to bottom, seem to thrive on just terrible conditions, environmentally and all. And I'm also cool with the massively wealthy families who own these farms maybe feeling a squeeze.

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 77 points 10 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 11 points 4 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 4 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 2 hours ago

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

[–] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 43 points 9 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 5 hours ago

It's clearly Joe Biden's fault.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 4 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 4 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 12 points 7 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 22 points 7 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 48 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] dublet@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

Bike fall meme

"Democrats did this"

[–] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 14 points 8 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 6 hours ago

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

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 19 points 10 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 2 hours ago

That's socialism, LOL.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 18 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] suigenerix@lemmy.world 1 points 2 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.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 12 points 8 hours ago

Create the problem and sell them the solution kinda guy.

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6 points 7 hours ago

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

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

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

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 54 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 37 points 11 hours ago (4 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 5 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.

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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 20 points 10 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 6 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Ahahahaha America is the land of complete douchebaggery!!!

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 14 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

"Good news, everyone!"

Trump the comical Farnsworth of the real United States.

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