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Joe Winter's avatar

The American cattle rancher is getting hit hard. Pay attention….; these producers are getting disappeared!!

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Ken France's avatar

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the long warred's avatar

Reposted to Truth social

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Keely Covello's avatar

Thank you!

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Shannon Montoya-Dick's avatar

How do we get our voices heard? I come from a cattle ranch family from southern Colorado on my paternal side, and I grew up here in Northern California with my homestead family who raised pairs of livestock that we can’t afford to feed anymore with the cost of hay and grain. We had to sell our cattle & sheep, all I’m left with are my chickens and fortunately I can sell some of the eggs to help with feed and they forage too. No water no grass for cattle

Keely Please Advise how we can raise our voices.

Maybe Argentina meat should go to our military personnel…

Not my first choice I’d rather USA protein and vegetables go to our troops that would be my first choice

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Chris Bray's avatar

Have ranchers been able to get into the White House? Is Trump hearing any of this?

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Deborah Gregson's avatar

I think he's more interested in how he can use this as part of negotions regarding tariffs with Argentina than about our ranchers. He doesn't seem to care about all the protected, farm, dairy, or ranch land being taken over by "conservation groups", wind or solar farms, or low income housing developments, so I doubt he'll care about this. I'm not sure he's as worried about the working people of this country as he is about the big corporations of the future.

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Ted's avatar

The ranchers aren't wrong.

Much as I dislike subsidies and bailouts, I wouldn't complain too bitterly if they became an element in this paradigm for a while.

There are a lot of moving parts to the macroeconomic adjustments currently in motion. Correcting the trade imbalances is only one aspect, there are numerous others. The Argentina question is a realpolitik that cannot be neglected. American beef and dairy are critical to our food supply sovereignty, as is the prevention of more agricultural land ownership concentration.

It's a decadal timeline, and everything must move forward together. If COO Labelling is part of the answer, it must proceed.

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Roger Sterling's avatar

Have you ever noticed how government intervention within markets usually fuck them up. It’s quite simple…eliminate the beef processing cartel and let domestic market forces modulate beef production. If left alone beef production/prices will ebb and flow to match demand. The end result will be a stable/sustainable meat supply … simple yet elegant.

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Peggy Bojduj's avatar

Groceries beef. Fish gas Everything is sky high in California. I thought it was the environmentalists driving up costs who hate beef.

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Deborah Gregson's avatar

They're just a small part of it. I think they're working with our government to a more nefarious end.

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LucyNeo's avatar

We are already sending taxpayer monies to Argentina to 'bail out' their economy and tank our own. These are WEF directives, Trump is one among their puppets- don't buy the act he has any clue whatsoever about how economies work or even gives a crap. He's a ketchup on steak creep. Buying their export is more money laundering and has nothing to do with price lowering on a main protein staple at home. Its about "you will eat zeee bugs"...look at the legislation about to be enacted that makes it illegal for local ranchers to sell to their neighbors forcing their beef to be processed (comingled and injected with poisons) by the corporations. Globalism and human culling is what this is all about. Captain Obvious. Now go buy your overpriced Gates 'Plant' Burger and wash it down with some petroleum flavored graphene laced liquid and make another doctors appointment...and make sure you do it with the Bluetooth plug in you ear to expedite that glioblastoma and annoying tinnitus.

Ranching can't easily replace humans with robots so it must be wiped out as an industry. Getting the picture?

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