Tariffs were reducing Brazilian imports and helping open the door to rebuilding our domestic herd. Rolling them back undermines that progress and reduces the incentive for America’s cattle industry to expand. We cannot have national food security if we continue weakening incentives to expand domestic production.
Recent market volatility shows more than ever we need real enforcement of the Packers and Stockyards Act and antitrust laws to rein in monopoly power. The DOJ’s investigation into packer conduct is a needed step. Rules-based trade has failed American ranchers and made the U.S. increasingly dependent on imported beef. We need managed trade with meaningful tariff rate quotas.
Increasing imports while cattle producers face limit-down days is a step backward. Beef prices will not fall as imports rise without MCOOL to distinguish U.S. beef from cheaper foreign beef.
We need policies that put both American cattle producers and American consumers first.
Beef prices are high because the market is broken. Years of unchecked imports and packer concentration let profits pile up at the top while ranchers and consumers both lose.
Beef is not “too high.” It’s a superfood, and health is wealth. Americans are realizing this is a fact! Beef consumption just hit a 40-year consumption peak, back to 1980s levels.
What’s more, according to CattleFax, I’m 1980, it took 12 minutes of labor to afford one pound of ground beef. In 2025, it still costs 12 minutes.
Beef can be purchased at every price point for every budget.
Be a rebel. Eat a steak. Live free.
Join me at https://t.co/p1KOQpo7O2 where YOU choose the price in our beef auctions!
@silagechopper Grasshoppers did not help the cause. Thought for sure PRF would pay for June-jul. A whopping 500$. Somewhere in the grid had 5” but not me! Maybe 1.5
The Beef industry needs a new plan, they need a new way to educate (not shame) beef consumers on how much it costs to produce beef.
Whatever the beef industry is currently doing is not working, you can tell by people’s posts no one knows what it costs to produce beef.
When your Government tells you FEMA is out of money for hurricane relief but they have been sending loads of money overseas and spending loads of money on a self-inflicted illegal immigrant problem...we have our priorities messed up.
Remember that in November.
Today's Random Cowboy Thought:
The cattle business is like a trophy spouse:
Impossibly attractive, constantly demanding attention, and always expensive.