Trump’s Beef Import Gamble: Ranchers Cry Foul as Cattle Herd Hits 75-Year Low

Trump’s Beef Import Gamble: Ranchers Cry Foul as Cattle Herd Hits 75-Year Low

Beef prices sit at $6.89 per pound. Ground beef. July 2026. Macrotrends tracks it from Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Consumers feel the pinch at every grocery run. President Donald Trump moved fast. He announced plans to let 300,000 metric tons of beef enter the U.S. tariff-free over 90 days. The goal? Slash those prices. Give ranchers breathing room to rebuild herds. But the backlash hit like a cattle stampede. America’s largest cattle group…

Trump’s Argentina Beef Import Flood: Betrayal of American Farmers and the Road to Food Dependency

The Promise Broken: Why Trump’s Beef Import Move Further Destroys Domestic Agriculture President Donald Trump campaigned as the champion of the American farmer, promising to put “America First” and protect the heartland. Yet his administration has now quadrupled the tariff?rate quota for Argentine beef, allowing up to 300,000 metric tons of foreign meat to flood […]

Beef prices; Gunshots investigation; Chance for showers

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- Here's a look at Saturday's top stories with KELOLAND On the Go. In a Truth Social post, the President says for the next 90 days, the United States will allow up to 300-thousand metric tons of beef to be imported with no tariff. Police are investigating a report of gunshots [...]

Trump plan to import ground beef is more about baloney than beef

Cattle producers are fuming at President Trump's decision last week to bring 300 metric tons of ground beef into the country, tariff free. With cattle markets falling hard since the first of August, this added supply will only add to the downside pressure in the market.That doesn’t seem to bother Trump, who said he’s doing it “to substantially lower the price of ground beef for working American families.”To that I’d say his expectations are unre…

America’s Largest Association Of Cattle Ranchers Responds To Trump’s Beef Debacle

America’s cattle herd is smaller than it’s been in roughly 75 years, and Trump’s answer to that shortage, announced Friday, is 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef. He posted on Truth Social that his administration would waive tariffs on that volume of ground beef imports for 90 days, with what he called a commitment that the meat would sell “25 percent below current market prices.” He framed the plan as a rescue for an industry he blames Biden f…