Undated (RI) — President Donald Trump says the US may buy beef from Argentina to bring beef prices down for consumers. Bill Bullard is CEO of R-CALF USA, the largest trade group for cattle producers. He says the president’s attention is welcome because the US cattle market has been broken for decades.
Bullard says importing more beef in the U.S. is absolutely the wrong thing to do.
Bullard says the Trump Administration needs to focus on concentration in the meatpacking industry. Four companies are buying 85 percent of the cattle that are slaughtered in the US, plus the Food Industry Association says meat sales in mega-retailers like Walmart are growing, while the amount of meat sold in local grocery stores is falling.
Bullard says Trump could help cattle producers by placing a quota on imported beef and imposing higher tariffs on beef imports once that quota is reached.
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