Under Trump, US cedes its share of China's beef market to Australia

now imagine for a moment - go back to that post-9/11 period - and imagine that our standing in the world and our economic dominance are both failing not because of some new innovation from our competitors, or climactic disturbance in politics or crops, no, it's all falling to shit because, and only because we elected a conman to lead the country, twice, and it's gone terribly both times.

oh and gwb iraq didn't really set things up for greatness, but damn, ten years of trump has run this country right into the ditch.

impressively rapid descent into shitocracy.

They'll blame Democrats

Thanks to Republican education cuts and propaganda, they're dumb as shit and won't put two and two together

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

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?

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.

Seems a bit woke, honestly.

Australian here.

I just thought you'd be interested to know that the nutty is kind of leaking.

Thankfully they are very few, but we do have some MAGA Trump supporters here, and yes they occasionally say "make australia great again". Its so shameless.

I live in a place called albany, and yes on precisely one occasion I've seen someone say make albany great again.

We're having a local council election. About a third of the candidates are dickheads with no chance of getting up, and yes they include things like anti-woke and anti-DEI in their bios.

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.

Listen dude, if you want to get the uparrows you gotta say how this hurts America, maybe a little #fucktrump, et cetera.

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.

Because of gate keeping agricorps, blaming ranchers they squeeze for their price fixing. It worked on eggs, why not?

Looks like a double knock out combo of covid + climate change did a lot of damage and most aren't interested in rebuilding quickly due to high costs. Highlighted the important bits:

As it got harder to feed and otherwise maintain their herds, producers in the summer of 2022 slaughtered more beef cows than ever in the USDA record keeping. They were already reeling from losses during the pandemic, which disrupted meatpacking plants, plus rising inflation and interest rates. Beef prices tumbling from too much available meat further discouraged ranchers from replenishing their herds.

Repopulation is still going very slowly — for new reasons. Facing ever-higher operations costs, ranchers are leery of investing in an expansion. And the record values that cattle can fetch mean that it's often more profitable to sell young females (called heifers) for meat than to keep them for breeding.

"There's not a lot of incentive to rapidly rebuild the herd," Blackett says. "Us, along with ranchers across the United States, are selling those heifers that might otherwise be retained into the herd."

And given that it takes years to raise a new cow, beef may remain in short supply for a long while.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/18/nx-s1-5534424/beef-prices-record-high-cost