The President has announced that he has opened the U. S. market to duty-free beef imports in an effort to reduce consumers prices.\u00a0 This action seems to be based on the same amount of thought he gave to the Iran War.\u00a0 Have the consequences to beef producers and consumers been considered. I doubt that the cow\/calf operator will gain anything from the action and quite possibly will lose.\u00a0 The consumer will be exposed to poorly inspected, possibly tainted product because of lax inspections in the countries from which imports originate.\u00a0 Is this preferrable to strengthening the domestic beef production?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The President has announced that he has opened the U. S. market to duty-free beef imports in an effort to reduce consumers prices.\u00a0 This action seems to be based on the same amount of thought he gave to the Iran War.\u00a0 Have the consequences to beef producers and consumers been considered. I doubt that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n