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Could Trumps attempt to lower beef prices backfire?
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Posted 10/27/2025 05:35 (#11414382 - in reply to #11413713)
Subject: RE: Could Trumps attempt to lower beef prices backfire?


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Keith Mudd - 10/26/2025 13:39

The Commstock Report last week made a very good point. Won't increased imports of cattle/beef perhaps lower the prices today but encourage cow/calf producers to sell heifers as fats at the expense of increasing cow herd size? Trump seems to think producers will retain heifers to increase herd size resulting in more fed cattle down the road. Increased heifer slaughter will increase the supply of beef today but in the long run won't it have the exact opposite effect? 



Have you heard of a grain called spring wheat? Everyone used to grow it until the prices went down. Now everyone is looking for an alternative.

Cows are the same as wheat but worse. One or two profitable years out of 10 shrinks the national herd faster than high prices like now.

Everyone who has cows now is at capacity. You can't overstock land and have it end well.

We need more people in cows, not more cows with less people.

All lower prices will do is shrink the national herd. That's it. There is no upside.
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