What Are the Current Economics of United States Beef and Cattle Market?

Las Animas County commissioner reports local cattle ranchers have ‘significant concerns’ amid imports of Argentinian beef - The Chronicle

Las Animas County Commissioner, Tony Hass, took to the courthouse Tuesday, Nov. 4, during the LAC Board of County Commissioners meeting and made several announcements, including what he called “significant concerns” from cattle producers as the federal government opted to procure and import Argentinian beef, for what White House officials stated was to lower grocery costs.

USDA’s beef industry plan sells out public lands

Cattle who were separated from their calves stand in front of burnt hills near Emmett, Idaho. (Photo by Mia Maldonado/Idaho Capital Sun)The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s new Beef Industry Plan arrived in October wrapped in flowery language of industry revitalization and rejuvenation.  At the core of the plan — a joint venture between USDA and the Department of the Interior — is a pledge to “streamline and expand grazing on federal lands.”  Tr…

What are the current economics of United States beef and cattle market?

United States cattle farmers have faced significant challenges in recent years, from COVID-19-related supply chain disruptions, low cattle prices and persistent drought conditions to growing threats of invasive pests and diseases, a decades-low supply of beef cows and historic inflation in production costs. For the first time in a long time, cattle ranchers, backgrounders, stockers and cow-calf producers are experiencing dependable economic retu…

Missouri ranchers frustrated by federal plan to cut beef prices.

(Missouri News Service) – Many Missouri farmers and ranchers are increasingly uneasy as federal plans to reduce beef prices gain traction.Donald Trump recently announced that the United States would purchase 80,000 metric tons (approximately 176,370 pounds) of beef from Argentina in a short-term effort to ease grocery bills. This announcement arrives just as Missouri’s ranching […] The post Missouri ranchers frustrated by federal plan to cut bee…

Debate over MCOOL returns as U.S. considers Argentinian beef imports

The executive vice president of the Illinois Beef Association says talks of importing Argentinian beef have reignited calls for mandatory country-of-origin labeling (MCOOL). Josh St. Peters says it was tried in the 2002 Farm Bill but repealed in 2015. “It didn’t work.”  He says, “It didn’t create any additional sustained value in the marketplace, but […] The post Debate over MCOOL returns as U.S. considers Argentinian beef imports appeared first…