Economists Don't Expect Reopening the US to Mexican Cattle Imports to Reduce High Beef Prices
USDA says inspections and animal health controls will limit screwworm risk as the phased reopening aims to restore cattle supply.
- On Monday, the U.S. government reopened a border crossing in Douglas, Arizona, to cattle from Mexico as part of the Trump administration's effort to reduce record-high beef prices.
- Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins authorized the phased reopening after determining Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico, maintain strong animal health programs to contain the New World screwworm fly, a $113 billion threat to the U.S. cattle industry.
- President Donald Trump announced Friday that he would allow up to 331,000 tons of imported ground beef into the U.S. tariff-free, to be sold at below-market prices over the next 90 days.
- Derrell Peel, a professor of agribusiness at Oklahoma State University, said "I don't expect to see any measurable impact on cattle prices or beef prices soon," expressing economist skepticism about the policy's effectiveness.
- Rebuilding the U.S. cattle herd, now at 86.2 million head—the lowest figure in 75 years—will take years, as drought and low prices have forced ranchers to reduce operations significantly.
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The U.S. plans to reopen a border crossing in Arizona to cattle from Mexico on Monday as part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to reduce record-high beef prices, though economists doubt the move will mean much to grocery store shoppers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has said concerns about the New World screwworm’s spread lessened enough to allow the movement of cattle from Mexico at the crossing in Douglas, Arizona, about 23…
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Ground beef hit $6.90 a pound this spring. Steaks topped $13. Record prices. Empty feedlots. And a flesh-eating parasite that hadn’t troubled U.S. cattle since the 1960s. Now President Donald Trump is cracking the border gate back open. Starting Monday, cattle from northern Mexico can once again cross at Douglas, Arizona. The move comes after more than a year of closure aimed at containing the New World screwworm. But with the U.S. cattle herd a…
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Washington TimesEconomists don’t expect reopening the U.S. to Mexican cattle imports to reduce high beef prices
The U.S. plans to reopen a border crossing in Arizona to cattle from Mexico on Monday as part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to reduce record-high beef prices, though economists doubt the move will mean much to grocery store shoppers.
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