661 MILLION POUNDS of Cheap Foreign Beef | Ranchers Are Right to Worry

661 million pounds of cheap foreign beef. 90 days. Promised at 25% below market. Ranchers are right to be concerned. This video tests the policy instead of cheering it or burying it. President Trump says the U.S. will allow up to 300,000 metric tons of product used for ground beef in with no out-of-quota tariff for 90 days, and that foreign suppliers committed to sell it 25% below current market. Cattle futures dropped. Cattle groups pushed back. Families want cheaper hamburger. Ranchers are deciding whether to keep the next heifer. We walked the actual market — not the talking points. WHAT THIS VIDEO COVERS • Why high calf prices are a production signal, not just a grocery problem • USDA numbers: 2026 calf crop 32.5 million head (down 2%), beef production near 24.97 billion pounds • Why cow culling is already falling — and why that still is not a finished rebuild • Why this is lean manufacturing beef (the trim used to make hamburger), not a mountain of finished ground beef in the case • Why imported lean can fill a hole while American cows stay home making calves • The 25% claim: 25% below what? • 90-day bridge vs a habit of opening imports every time cattle prices get politically expensive • Mexican feeder cattle and the Douglas, AZ reopen — a different product, a different clock • The scoreboard Washington should publish: border price, wholesale lean, retail ground beef, calf price, heifers that stayed home The question is not “foreign beef bad.” The question is whether a short lean-beef bridge becomes a substitute for rebuilding the American herd. If hamburger comes down and the next heifer still gets kept, the policy worked. If the border price moves and the calf market breaks, the country will see that too. Ranchers are not against cheaper food. They are trying to make sure America still has somebody raising it when the 90 days are over. If you raise cattle, work in a plant, or just buy hamburger — tell us what you are seeing on the ground. Subscribe to Yanasa TV for document-driven reporting on cattle, land, food, and rural America. Not opinions. Documents. #BeefPrices #Cattle #Ranchers #GroundBeef #FoodPrices #USDA #Agriculture #RuralAmerica #YanasaTV Join this channel and support our efforts:    / @yanasatv