Australian beef has replaced U.S. supply in China since Donald Trump returned to the White House, funnelling hundreds of millions of dollars that have in previous years gone to the U.S. cattle industry into Australian pockets.
U.S. shipments to China, worth around $120 million a month, collapsed after Beijing in March allowed permits to expire at hundreds of American meat facilities and as Trump unleashed a tit-for-tat tariff war.
Other U.S. farm exports to China, the world’s biggest food importer, have also suffered since Trump retook power. On soybeans alone, U.S. farmers have lost out on shipments worth billions of dollars during the current harvest season.
Egg production is a different story. You want cheap eggs? Then we have to factory farm. Once bird flu gets loose in these monster facilities, they have to cull every bird. Couple of years back when egg prices were crazy, they had culled over 50 million birds.
Canada faces the same problems yet they have cheaper eggs???