Rawson: U.S. should cut regulations instead of importing more beef from Argentina
Letter to the editor
Florida must stand with our cattlemen and buy Florida-grown beef. Until recently, our U.S. Cattlemen have struggled to make a profit. If the U.S. Government floods U.S. markets with foreign beef (in this case, from Argentina), this will likely drive more consolidation of the industry –- forcing many medium-sized Florida ranchers out of the industry –- and, as you guessed it, this would create a perfect storm for more of our arable range lands to be converted to rooftops. We cannot allow this to happen. Our cattle industry is a net plus to our economy, while housing developments are a long-term economic net loss. Even more, if Florida and the U.S. lose more of our rangelands, the price of domestic beef will only further increase.
The problem is that there is not enough U.S. beef in the market today. We must incentivize more investment in our cattle industry by cutting unnecessary regulations in our processing facilities and cut the cost of fuel production by opening up domestic drilling.
I support cutting unnecessary regulation in industry, and I stand with domestic oil production and our Great Florida Cattle Industry!
Marshall Rawson, North Florida Citrus Producer and Candidate for the Florida House of Representatives
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You begin by stating the US Government is pushing this Argentine crap, but it’s your main squeeze DJT. What will your position be re: him while you campaign: I will do everything he says or listen to your constituents needs?
There’s many more beef consumer voters.
Cutting unnecessary regulations and cutting the cost of fuel production – those are sound solutions to shore up our producers.
I guess the controversy lies in figuring out which regs are unnecessary…I agree that we are still woefully overregulated in so many areas of life, despite some recent efforts to deregulate.
Government can’t remove all risk from our lives, but in attempting to protect us from ourselves, it stifles our basic freedoms and impedes our ability to be self sufficient. Regulations create barriers to competition/barriers to entry in various industries.
Cattle ranchers didn’t breed enough calf production when prices were low a few years ago. Now they’re paying the price when prices are too high. Supply and demand, but the consumer is king (not DJT, their servant). 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
“Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout
The United States finalized a $20 billion lifeline for Argentina that will benefit Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s allies.”
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Marshall, you’re leaving out an integral piece of the problem here, I just can’t decide if it’s intentional or not. The packing houses are a GIANT concern. They are the ones making the huge profits. They’re squeezing the ranchers out. Private equity firms own most of the packing/processing houses and they don’t care about the ones actually producing the meat. They only care about their own profits. It’s a shared investment, or at least it should be. The offshoring of beef is also a problem but we need to clean up our own house first and it starts with the packers and their greed.
Get rid of the farm bill
What a moronic assessment.