{"id":18256,"date":"2025-10-21T01:55:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=18256"},"modified":"2025-10-21T02:26:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:26:16","slug":"wie-trump-amerikas-rinderzuechter-gegen-sich-aufbringt-eine-investigative-und-bedrueckende-recherche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/wie-trump-amerikas-rinderzuechter-gegen-sich-aufbringt-eine-investigative-und-bedrueckende-recherche\/","title":{"rendered":"How Trump Is Turning America\u2019s Cattle Ranchers Against Him \u2013 An Investigative and Disturbing Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are moments when one wonders whether Donald Trump still knows what he is doing \u2013 or whether he has long since become his own contradiction. While his administration calls on farmers, customs officers, and patriots, insisting everything must be \"Made in America,\" the president now wants to import beef from Argentina to lower rising meat prices. A man who once built entire campaigns on the pride of American agriculture suddenly places his bet on cattle from South America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"We would buy some beef from Argentina,\" Trump said Sunday aboard Air Force One, as if it were a passing thought and not an economic policy somersault. \"If we do that, our meat prices will go down.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What sounds like pragmatic market logic is in truth a political contradiction in itself. The president who has slapped tariffs on almost every imported product now wants open markets precisely where his protectionist dogma was once sacred - in American agriculture. The price of ground beef has risen about 15 percent this year - to almost seven dollars per pound, a historic high. The reasons include extreme droughts, the government\u2019s withdrawal of irrigation aid because there is no climate change, which has reduced cattle herds, as well as Trump\u2019s own tariff and trade policies, which made imports from countries like Brazil more expensive. The fact that the administration now wants to turn to Argentina is, ironically, the result of its own measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While the White House props up Buenos Aires with billions in loans and embraces President Javier Milei like a newly won brother in the fight against China, cattle ranchers in Kansas, Texas, and South Dakota see red. They fear that cheap meat from the south will undermine their existence - and that the government is betraying its own market. \"This plan only creates chaos in a critical time for American cattle producers while not even lowering supermarket prices,\" said Colin Woodall, CEO of the National Cattlemen\u2019s Beef Association. He points to a drastic trade imbalance: over the past five years, the U.S. exported about seven million dollars\u2019 worth of beef to Argentina - but imported over 800 million dollars\u2019 worth. And he recalls the old fear of foot-and-mouth disease, which has flared up again and again in Argentina and has made American farmers wary for decades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump, who has categorically excluded climate change from his entire economic policy, has dealt a double blow to American cattle ranchers. While large parts of the country have been hit by increasingly severe droughts, his tariff policy has made precisely those products more expensive that are vital for survival in such times: feed, seeds, machinery, spare parts. What began as nationalist protectionism has become a self-made cage for agriculture. Because Trump denied climate change, irrigation aid was also cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n