Biden policies hurting America's cattlemen, consumers will pay the price

[DKG]

As production of cattle has plummeted to its lowest levels in decades, a rancher is warning that Americans are "going to pay the price" for the beef supply hitting a crisis point.

"This is a bad situation for America's cattle farmers and America because we're producing 1 billion pounds less beef than we were in this country, just a year ago," John Boyd, Jr. – president of the National Black Farmers Association – said during a Thursday interview on "Fox & Friends First."

Boyd has been farming and producing beef for 41 years, and he stressed, "I'm telling you, this is a time when we should be investing in America's cattle, and we're not doing it."

"We're not investing in America's beef and cattle farmers, and Biden policies are hurting America's cattlemen, such as myself," he continued. "They should be invested in America's cattle farmers and making sure that we have the tools needed to stay on the farm."

American Farm Bureau Federation Economist Bernt Nelson told the Southern Farm Network, "The combination of higher input prices and drought drove farmers and ranchers to market more cattle, and not just more cattle but more female cattle that are responsible for replacing the beef herd. Now, we're looking at a beef herd of about 28.2 million head. Amongst that we have a calf crop that is 33.6 million. Now this is down two percent, but it's the smallest calf crop since 1948. That's in 76 years."

Nelson said the current pipeline for beef supplies is "strong," but cautioned "as that supply begins to dry up, that's when we are going to see beef supplies start to get tighter and tighter, and this could lead to the record prices that I think are going to occur in 2024 and 2025."

Beef sold for an average of $5 per pound last year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Deliberately increasing the price of diesel has had an inflationary impact on the price of food throughout the Western world where our obsession to lower emissions has forced people to food banks.

You have countries like the Netherlands and Canada artificially inflating the price of fertilizer. First they came for your F-150, now they are want to control what is on your plate.

[Herman]

Jesus H, tell me about it. Justine's climate craziness is killing family farms.

[Shen Li]

I saw the protests in the Netherlands over nitrogen emissions. This would involve the government buying out and shutting down livestock farms. I assume if Geert Wilders becomes PM, sanity will return to Dutch agriculture.

[Brent]

Trudeau's carbon tax and clean fuels standard tax hurts farmers more than any other self employed occupation.