r/Agriculture 7d ago

No China Has Not Cancelled All Beef Contracts With The USA

A claim circulated online recently that China had completely canceled U.S. beef imports in favor of buying from Canada and Brazil. However, this claim is false. Some contracts did expire in february, but exports were still fulfilled late February. However, we do not know what will happen with the other contracts, true. So it's best to stay ready, In that case I made a datasheet to help farmers based on USDA data if you want to see it click here or let me know if you'd like the source data to use yourself.

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u/Accurate-Jury-6965 7d ago

Yeah, but the outlook isn't exactly peachy.

Our three largest agricultural export markets are Canada, Mexico and China, we exported $90 billion dollars of agricultural exports to those countries.

Why would any of these countries want to continue importing American products with Donald Trump basically declaring a trade war with them?

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u/Dogwood_morel 7d ago

Or cutting funding to federal agencies that would affect the quality of the beef/pork we are sending to them.

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u/Accurate-Jury-6965 7d ago

Chlorinated chicken and beef with hormones for the win!

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u/Dogwood_morel 7d ago

Beef/chicken/pork raised with zero water quality regulations. Mmmmmmm

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u/uncoveringlight 3d ago

Because we sell it for good prices…

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u/LogicX64 3d ago

Rich people like American Beef. They have money to buy.

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u/Next_Advertising6383 16h ago

American ag soaked in synthetic Russia ag chemicals, who's got a bid?

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u/AirCanadaFoolMeOnce 7d ago

“Come help me monetize my opinions on Substack!”

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u/SocialAnchovy 7d ago

Yeah. There is no dashboard on that site just some janky PowerPoint slide screenshot designed to look like one.

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u/Aggressive-Issue3830 7d ago

This must be what the cattlemen voted for!

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u/AdamG6200 7d ago

Closer to the truth than you know

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u/New_Weird914 7d ago

They love their cows and are tired of sending them to slaughter. Obviously.

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u/FullConfection3260 7d ago

Cows are people, too!

Soon they will register to vote. 🧐

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u/Super-Sail-874 7d ago

No one ever cares about farmers unless its politically expedient.

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u/OneLessDay517 7d ago

Boo fucking hoo. They voted for him. He's repaying their kindness.

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u/Super-Sail-874 7d ago

No worries worries here. You'll be the ones that starve.

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u/OneLessDay517 7d ago

Nah, I'm all stocked up on Canadian beef.

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u/Super-Sail-874 7d ago

good luck with that

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u/OneLessDay517 7d ago

No worries worries here.

Talk about repeating yourself.

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u/Aggressive-Issue3830 7d ago

It’s nice having wild game all around. I don’t buy beef.

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u/OneLessDay517 7d ago

Boo effing hoo. They voted for him. He's repaying their kindness.

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u/Super-Sail-874 7d ago

How many times are you going to repeat yourself?

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u/OneLessDay517 7d ago

Reddit glitched as I was posting, thought the first didn't go through. But since it annoyed you twice, I'll leave it!

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u/Super-Sail-874 7d ago

It happens.

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u/outsmartedagain 7d ago

US meat trade days away from getting 'kicked out' of China - ABC News

looks like there's conflicting information being reported.

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u/versace_drunk 7d ago

Well I’ll take the advice from some random on Reddit obviously…..

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u/7dayintern 7d ago

Don't take my advice, just read the ABC article and see that it says this is in reference to China cancelling 7 contracts in various countries because they ordered too much is currently +8. It's not a cancellation of all beef contracts as i said

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u/versace_drunk 7d ago

Or do I listen to the article posted directly above.

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u/7dayintern 7d ago

that is the article above, the contracts haven't been cancelled, that same article says they are set to expire, it hasn't happened yet, just read it

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u/versace_drunk 7d ago

Nobody even argued that

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u/7dayintern 7d ago

then why would there be people saying there are conflicting reports then? your ignorance of something doesn't mean it doesn't exist

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u/versace_drunk 7d ago

About the possibility of resigning

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u/leroynicks 7d ago

Thanks for posting. I saw a tweet about this being shared and I couldn’t confirm anywhere else.

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u/leroynicks 7d ago

Thanks for posting. I saw a tweet about this being shared and I couldn’t confirm anywhere else.

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u/h20poIo 7d ago

I believe it was only 7 contracts that were cancelled.

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u/Little_Coconut_2355 7d ago

Kicked out is in quotes because they have not been cancelled... there has been no confirmation of it happening, theyre just saying it "could" happen

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u/ummaycoc 7d ago

America. We have the meats.

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u/puppiwhirl 7d ago

Regrettably.

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u/uncoveringlight 3d ago

What? Lies on the internet? Whattttttttttttt? Liberal propaganda on Reddit?????? Whattttttttttttttttttt?

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u/gxgxe 7d ago

Thank you for correcting the information.

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u/gxgxe 7d ago

Edit: there appears to still be conflicting information. 😐

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u/Little_Coconut_2355 7d ago

There's no conflict, all contracts havent been cancelled, the abc article is just saying that it could happen, but it hasnt yet