paul the original - 10/23/2025 11:59
JCB7700 - 10/23/2025 06:07
I am not sure why the cattle guys and gals and people in agriculture in general are upset with Trump. He is doing just exactly what he campaigned on. He told you he was going to enact tariffs and start a trade war with Americas largest buyer of soybeans and he campaigned on the promise of lowering grocery prices. Now he is living up to those promises that you voted for and now your upset about it. Campaign promises made, campaign promises kept. Isn't this just what we had been waiting for in a leader?. Someone who does what he says he is going to do. It would seem to me it would be easier to make marketing decisions when you know the president is going to live up to his word.
I try to avoid politics here, but you really have much of that right.
I guess the difference on the cattle deal is, now we are importing beef, not growing ‘local’, which was the main point of his economic reforms.
When the bean market dipped a bit, the deal was we should use the grains in our own country.
Fair enough, I can work with that if that is the goal.
But, E15 hasn’t happened with all the headwinds of the oil cartel.
And now beef has become an import product which hurts beef producers and feed growers.
Beef has become a staple of the more affluent people in this country. Higher prices seem just fine with consumers. Poor folk went to poultry and pork a few years ago.
So, lowering the price of beef isn’t ‘helping’ poor folk or anguished consumer groups…
Puts the whole beef thing out of step with anything else on the current political agenda.
Paul
Come on cattle guys, respect Dear Leader
