{"id":446859,"date":"2026-08-29T04:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T04:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446859\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T04:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T04:12:12","slug":"san-diego-cattle-ranchers-push-back-on-trumps-beef-tariff-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446859\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego cattle ranchers push back on Trump\u2019s beef tariff pause"},"content":{"rendered":"

In response to cattle ranchers’ pushback over the administration’s pause on tariffs on beef imports<\/a>, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he would make it easier for them to process their own meat.<\/p>\n

Allison Fender, a third-generation cattle rancher in Santa Ysabel, said that\u2019s not so easy. She’s the owner of Flying F Ranch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cCattle are sold at auction, and then from auction goes to a feedlot, and then from a feedlot goes to a processor, and then from the processor it goes to the cut and wrap facility,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd then from there it goes to the grocery store.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a post on Truth Social<\/a>, Trump called the meat processors a \u201cnasty monopoly.\u201d Four firms process 85% of the beef in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Meat processing has strict safety requirements and inspections, so it\u2019s unclear how the president will implement his plans.<\/p>\n

Fender, a member of the San Diego chapter of the California Cattlemen’s Association<\/a>, said the government should investigate the consolidation of meat processors. Many say that\u2019s why prices are increasing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we have more supply with processing facilities, we’re able to get that American beef to consumers, which is what our American consumers really want,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Trump signed a proclamation pausing tariffs on certain ground beef products for 90 days to lower consumer costs. Fender said that undermines ranchers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt kind of makes us feel that we are not doing enough, even though we\u2019re busting our butts every day,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Trump said he would reconsider ending the tariff pause if it didn\u2019t result in lower prices. But that kind of volatility makes it hard for cattle ranchers to plan long-term. It takes many months to raise cattle from calves to when they are ready to be butchered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In response to cattle ranchers’ pushback over the administration’s pause on tariffs on beef imports, President Donald Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-446859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}