MitchAbides 🛵

We don't necessary agree with this or support it but wanted to give an alternative viewpoint that i think got missed. A lot of ranchers are furious about the temporary beef import move, and I get it. But there’s another way to look at the logic: Cattle prices got so high that many producers can make the same (or better) money running fewer head. High margins on lower volume reduce the urgency to expand. By putting temporary downward pressure on prices, the administration is trying to make volume matter again. If you need more cattle to maintain profit, you retain more heifers and grow the herd. Short-term pain for long-term expansion. Whether it works is another question—but the incentive structure is real.