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.
It makes sense, Australia is much closer. Congratulations to Trump on being so eco-conscious.
Seems a bit woke, honestly.
Australia isn’t woke, it has crocodiles!
Notoriously sleepy reptiles.
Also koalas, arguably the least woke mammals on earth.
We even have lizard called a Sleepy Lizard. Cant get more Anti Woke than that
Ah but immigrants…
Have noticed Australia is also replacing the US here in Canada as well.
Getting loads of amazing New Zealand apples in Canada now instead of ones from the US. They’re very good! 😊
…and its soy market to South America.
So in the past couple of weeks, MAGA has been Make Argentina Great Again and now Make Australia Great Again.
I wonder what Trump is gonna fuck up next week so that Azerbaijan can swoop in to start selling to China.
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.
An American friend played a season of football for Albany. And another played for Mt Barker.
RIP Beef prices here (Australia) for a few years.
Demand will outstrip supply and as always, we’ll come second to the export market.
Hopefully this demand is the new normal and not just a bubble, otherwise it’s just high prices for nothing.
Don’t worry, the next time we ‘hurt the feelings of the Chinese people’ things will be back to normal.
Maybe this will mean red meat will finally get cheaper.
Oh wait, no it won’t, we will just lose all that meat and money. Taxpayers will have to foot the bill for Republicans like always.
And that’s in top of the massive bail-out they just gave Argentina.
i hear argentine beef is really good, but i haven’t been out there to try it.
It’s good but pretty expensive.
Right after ceding the global ev market to china. The guy is a jeenius.
The leopards will be feasting on farmer face (again)
“Good news, everyone!”
Trump the comical Farnsworth of the real United States.
US cattle inventory is at a 70 year low anyways.
Meaning we couldn’t keep up with global markets anyways. Let other countries take on the ecological destruction that comes with trying to export meat. Every have a feed lot next to your water supply or a processing plant in your town? We need to fall back to smaller domestic market where local butchers are actually needed to supply their communities and not large grocery stores.
Listen dude, if you want to get the uparrows you gotta say how this hurts America, maybe a little #fucktrump, et cetera.
Uhhhhhh what. America not selling beef over seas hurts America in the short term. That’s too much beef for just America. Our beef is worse quality anyways.
My preferred beef, personally, is from local farms, and so I’m all about the idea about smaller farms. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t buy from factory farms, chicken, beef, and pork, but I try to go local when possible.
Although as I’m writing this, I’m really not sure if local meats and their prices are affected much by the factory farms.
So yeah, I guess all I mean is that I’m totally cool with an America that has fewer factory farms, the operations, from top to bottom, seem to thrive on just terrible conditions, environmentally and all. And I’m also cool with the massively wealthy families who own these farms maybe feeling a squeeze.
Liberals don’t like it when you highlight that what they support is bad too.
Yes, it’s shitty for business and the economy and will hurt the country short term and these export relationships may never be rebuilt, and that’s counter to what Trump promised so “haha leopards eating faces”.
But when you highlight that these industries are harmful and exploitative appendages of the American empire, and their collapse will give your children a chance at a better future, downvotes and disengagement.
This is the first thing Trump has done that actually could lower grocery prices.
In another year, when all of the post-tariff trade agreements are completed, we’re going to be ceding a whole lot more than that.
Not that Donald will give a shit. He’ll have added 5-10 billion to his personal net worth by that point, and that’s all he cares about.
Ahahahaha America is the land of complete douchebaggery!!!
