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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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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 7 points 16 hours ago

...and its soy market to South America.

[–] gonf@lemmy.world 8 points 17 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.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Seems a bit woke, honestly.

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

Australia isn't woke, it has crocodiles!

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Notoriously sleepy reptiles.

Also koalas, arguably the least woke mammals on earth.

[–] TomArrr@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

We even have lizard called a Sleepy Lizard. Cant get more Anti Woke than that

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 94 points 1 day 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.

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 day 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 1 day 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 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

It's clearly Joe Biden's fault.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day 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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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] dublet@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Bike fall meme

"Democrats did this"

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

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

[–] biscuit@lemdro.id 11 points 1 day 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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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 13 points 1 day ago

Create the problem and sell them the solution kinda guy.

[–] suigenerix@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day 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 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago

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

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

That's socialism, LOL.

[–] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day 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?

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[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago

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

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 9 points 23 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.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago

And that's in top of the massive bail-out they just gave Argentina.

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

The leopards will be feasting on farmer face (again)

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day 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 day ago

It’s good but pretty expensive.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

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

[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 4 points 23 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 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

I have family farmers in Iowa. This is a bull shit take. They make so much corn because usa says so, but the corn the grow can't be eaten by humans. It's cattle feed.

It just sits. And you gor wit for 30$/acre or you try to free market and go broke.

It's an extremely inefficient system and non of that food goes to USA citizens. Which is why you have no citations for that comment.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day 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 23 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 23 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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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.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

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

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Good news, everyone!"

Trump the comical Farnsworth of the real United States.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Cassanderer@thelemmy.club 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ahahahaha America is the land of complete douchebaggery!!!

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
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