Australian beef has replaced U.S. supply in China since Donald Trump returned to the White House, funnelling hundreds of millions of dollars that have in previous years gone to the U.S. cattle industry into Australian pockets.

U.S. shipments to China, worth around $120 million a month, collapsed after Beijing in March allowed permits to expire at hundreds of American meat facilities and as Trump unleashed a tit-for-tat tariff war.

Other U.S. farm exports to China, the world’s biggest food importer, have also suffered since Trump retook power. On soybeans alone, U.S. farmers have lost out on shipments worth billions of dollars during the current harvest season.

  • Kindness is Punk@lemmy.ca
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    Thanks to Republican education cuts and propaganda, they’re dumb as shit and won’t put two and two together

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      Farmers and ranchers are well aware Trump is to blame. They know who buys their products and why those customers are not buying now.

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      i’ve never known a farmer to stay in the business long if they were dumb as shit. politically naive? sure. growing crops isn’t as simple as scattering seeds and waiting.

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        Oh I know they have the capacity to be smart I’m saying their systemically disadvantaged preventing them from acting in their best interest in this instance