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.
…and its soy market to South America.
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.
It makes sense, Australia is much closer. Congratulations to Trump on being so eco-conscious.
Seems a bit woke, honestly.
Australia isn’t woke, it has crocodiles!
Notoriously sleepy reptiles.
Also koalas, arguably the least woke mammals on earth.
We even have lizard called a Sleepy Lizard. Cant get more Anti Woke than that
Good. The tears of the ranchers next will be sweet.
“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.
Thanks to Republican education cuts and propaganda, they’re dumb as shit and won’t put two and two together
Farmers and ranchers are well aware Trump is to blame. They know who buys their products and why those customers are not buying now.
Will they completely forget it the moment they get near a voting booth is the better question.
Yes!
It’s clearly Joe Biden’s fault.
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.
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
They’ll blame Democrats
“Democrats did this”
They won’t care. Trump will tell them it was Obama (because he will forget to say Biden).
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.
Suicide rates are climbing with US farmers. Some of them get it at the end of the day.
Trump is already promising to bail out the farmers with the money from tariffs next year.
Yeah, It’s what he did the last time he destroyed soybean exports.
Create the problem and sell them the solution kinda guy.
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.
Ah, so it’s a Ponzi scheme then on top of everything else?
That’s socialism, LOL.
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?
That, and making heavy use of the 13th amendment to work the farm.
They already know and are begging Trump for help. They’re also suffering for lack of immigrant workers.
Not all US farmers are Republicans and voted for Trump, though.
The leopards will be feasting on farmer face (again)
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.
And that’s in top of the massive bail-out they just gave Argentina.
Have noticed Australia is also replacing the US here in Canada as well.
Getting loads of amazing New Zealand apples in Canada now instead of ones from the US. They’re very good! 😊
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
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.
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
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.)
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.
i hear argentine beef is really good, but i haven’t been out there to try it.
It’s good but pretty expensive.
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.
Don’t worry, the next time we ‘hurt the feelings of the Chinese people’ things will be back to normal.
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
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.
US cattle inventory is at a 70 year low anyways.
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.
Listen dude, if you want to get the uparrows you gotta say how this hurts America, maybe a little #fucktrump, et cetera.
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.
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.
Liberals don’t like it when you highlight that what they support is bad too.
Yes, it’s shitty for business and the economy and will hurt the country short term and these export relationships may never be rebuilt, and that’s counter to what Trump promised so “haha leopards eating faces”.
But when you highlight that these industries are harmful and exploitative appendages of the American empire, and their collapse will give your children a chance at a better future, downvotes and disengagement.
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.
Right after ceding the global ev market to china. The guy is a jeenius.
