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Trump Says Cattle Ranchers ‘Don’t Understand’ His Policies After They Criticize Argentina Beef Import Plan
FORBES ^ | October 22. 2025 | Sara Dorn

Posted on 10/22/2025 12:46:47 PM PDT by hcmama

President Donald Trump rebuked cattle ranchers after they criticized his idea to import Argentinian beef, writing on Truth Social on Wednesday they “don’t understand” his policies—as the proposal has prompted criticism from Republican lawmakers in farm states while consumers face record-high beef prices.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agriculture; beef; bunnyboy; bunnybrookfarm; cattleranchers; fakenews; farming; food; groceries; inflation; inflationtariffs; monroedoctrine; notunderstandable; pdjtmakeupyourmind; searchworks; tds; trumpbeef; trumpknowscattle; watchandlearn

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To: PIF

They have to improve their input cost…I heard them complaining that high fuel prices are adding to the increase of cost but fuel is down. They have to find efficiencies.


21 posted on 10/22/2025 1:23:40 PM PDT by wiseprince (Me)
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To: Truthsearcher

Here’s a wild thought.

How about if we left it to individuals to figure it out?

How about if, instead of government putting its thumbs on the scale and artificially “deciding” what is profitable, instead? We just tell government to keep out of it unless pirates or failure to pay receipts or whatever happens.

How about if everybody just has responsibility for what they produce, what everybody else will pay for it, and we all succeed or fail based on the pure, intrinsic idea?


22 posted on 10/22/2025 1:24:33 PM PDT by Capn Hayek (Capital is not responsible for Labor's lack of planning)
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To: Tell It Right

You are totally correct that the USDA meat program is a bottleneck and a corrupt one at that.

It should be gotten rid of entirely and states should regulate and inspect facilities within their borders. And any large animal vet should be allowed to animal inspections.


23 posted on 10/22/2025 1:28:15 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: hcmama; All

Importing the beef is the reverse effect of protectionist tariffs but he’s limiting the scope by only allowing Argentina…Domestic demand should increase but if you still can’t compete even when the other side has huge tariffs you have input control issues. They need to figure out how to meet the increased demand without doubling prices. New challenge maybe but there is a huge market to the first one to figure it out.


24 posted on 10/22/2025 1:28:23 PM PDT by wiseprince (Me)
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To: hcmama

Ranchers understand their business much better than a casino owner.


25 posted on 10/22/2025 1:30:11 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer
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To: Tell It Right

Thank you, President Obama.
Trump certainly understands the dilemna of the cattle ranchers. Dire straits, my friend. Time, patience and a stable market is the cure. I know consumers outnumber ranchers but c’mon.


26 posted on 10/22/2025 1:35:56 PM PDT by griswold3 (cTruth Beauty and Goodness)
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To: hcmama

I think this is a Trump gut-post, like back when he talked about taking over Canada. He’ll “sober up” and clarify.


27 posted on 10/22/2025 1:45:59 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: jacknhoo

“Chuck Roast: ~$13.99 - $14.99/lb”

I’ve noticed. I used to buy pay around $12 for a nice cut of chuck to make into a pot roast. Same cut is like $28 now.


28 posted on 10/22/2025 1:48:52 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: All

We need more cattle
Currently America is at a 73 year low


29 posted on 10/22/2025 1:52:47 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Capn Hayek

Yes, no one is mentioning the incredibly high demand that has developed. Beef: it’s what’s wanted for dinner!


30 posted on 10/22/2025 1:52:53 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: irishjuggler

I just paid $24 for a three pound chuck roast to make a pot of Texas red.


31 posted on 10/22/2025 2:23:37 PM PDT by ebshumidors ( !)
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To: hcmama

×e used to import Argentine beef on a regulaor basis. Quite a few American beef farms bought land in Argentina for raising beef because it was so much cheaper to do so, and the profit margins so much higher even after shipping.

Beef prices were much lower then. We could actually afford to eat on a very low income.


32 posted on 10/22/2025 2:24:50 PM PDT by PrairieLady2 (USA: Land of the free, Because of the Brave.)
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To: gloryblaze
Yes, no one is mentioning the incredibly high demand that has developed

Double-digit price increases drive up demand?

33 posted on 10/22/2025 2:38:41 PM PDT by hcmama
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To: gloryblaze

Ha!

I resemble that remark.

All my life I’ve loved a good steak.

I’ll say this - I’m no longer in the little town I grew up in, but I still have a second freezer and I still fill it every year with part of a cow a neighbor/friend/etc 4-H kid raises. Maybe a 1/4, usually a 1/2.

You need a second freezer, and be forewarned - you’re really helping out a great organization and supporting the generation of US farmers, so sometimes? Well... Let’s just a good chunk of what were actually ribeyes became stew eat.

But still - you want beef (and you SHOULD want beef!)? You want to be MAGA? You want to actually save some money?

Find a contact or just get in contact with your local 4-H. Most places? It’s easy to get in a portion of livestock a 4-H kid raised.

You’ll pay your share for butchering and there’s a wink-wink “it’s for the kid..” thing, but it’s perfectly fair and fine.

I’ve gotten great deals - and good beef - from 4-H auction buys.


34 posted on 10/22/2025 2:39:55 PM PDT by Capn Hayek (Capital is not responsible for Labor's lack of planning)
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To: wiseprince

Down for you, but bulk prices in the 10s of thousands of gallons are still too high - consider diesel engines which ran fine for 100 years, now cannot operate unless they are fed DEF, an additional cost brought to us by wackos.

Then there are all the regulations which, as onerous as they are, come replete with hours of paperwork; then there are the regulations imposed by Biden of shipments of diesel to them. The list of expenses they have no control over goes on and on and on etc.

So 47’s solution to expensive beef is to make foreign ranchers rich, while ragging on US ranchers?


35 posted on 10/22/2025 2:42:26 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: hcmama

Yep its like 47’s idea on stopping the Russian war is to pile on the victim while bitch-slapping him in public, then shaking hands with the invaders.

It makes no sense


36 posted on 10/22/2025 2:45:20 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: hcmama

My last half a beef was $5.25 a lb. That is is roasts, steaks, everything. That included slaughter, dry aging 21 days, and custom cuts , delivered to my door.It is now $6.25 a lb.
I also have been buying American Wagyu ground beef for $5.25 a lb, but it’s now $5.65. a lb.
Both come from Texas Ranchers. I have a pot of chili simmering on the stove right now.


37 posted on 10/22/2025 2:47:48 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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To: hcmama

” Also, how is importing Argentinian beef going to do that?

It makes no sense “

My guess is Trump is paying Argentina big money to host US troops for the war he has brewing in South America.


38 posted on 10/22/2025 3:01:24 PM PDT by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimat.)
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To: hcmama

So Trump knows more about cattle ranching and ranch economics than actual cattle ranchers?


39 posted on 10/22/2025 3:05:07 PM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." --George Washington)
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To: hcmama

I can only expect they don’t understand his policies. What I really wonder is, does he?

Does anyone see a problem with an industry that must have a 50% protective tariff to be competitive? How about anyone that does not see how these tariffs are not raising our prices at the store?

Argentine beef is good but why and how can it be cheaper than US beef? Does anyone with two brain cells to rub together think that might be the real problem?


40 posted on 10/22/2025 3:07:31 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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