{"id":334737,"date":"2026-09-01T11:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T11:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334737\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T11:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T11:02:18","slug":"new-york-beef-producers-respond-to-beef-import-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334737\/","title":{"rendered":"New York beef producers respond to beef import decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, President Donald Trump announced he will allow beef into the U.S. from other countries without a tariff. New York beef producers said this could undercut their market.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a beef producer in the United States right now, I know there\u2019s a lot of challenges facing the industry as a whole. The cow herd size is down, tariffs. There\u2019s lots of trade negotiations going on,\u201d said Gabby Glenister, a beef producer from Highway Meadows Farm in Pulaski. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Glenister and her family raise black angus cattle and sell beef directly to consumers. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOur current administration, in my opinion, is not supportive of American agriculture. They\u2019re looking to go outside of the United States to source beef and other products,\u201d Glenister said.<\/p>\n

As of Sept. 1, the Trump administration will allow up to 300,000 metric tons of beef into the U.S. from other countries without a tariff. It’s a move that Trump said will lower the price of beef by 25%. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, it will impact not only the price of beef but our input costs as well as seed, fertilizer, fuel, and things like that,\u201d Glenister said.<\/p>\n

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Glenister (left) showing her cattle. (Spectrum News 1\/Emily Kenny)<\/p>\n

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American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall said in a statement that the decision is detrimental to American agriculture.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the few bright spots for U.S. agriculture right now \u2013 the cattle sector \u2013 just became dimmer because of today\u2019s presidential proclamation. The timing of this proclamation is a gut punch to ranchers\u2019 bottom line,\u201d Duvall said in a statement. \u201cA strong domestic food supply is easy to take for granted until it\u2019s gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to an analysis from the AFBF, nearly every input item for cattle producers is more expensive today than ever before.<\/p>\n

\u201cRecord ground beef prices are the result of the lowest beef cow inventory since 1971, driven by drought-forced liquidation and production costs have jumped nearly 30% since 2020,\u201d the analysis found.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the 90-day import window occurs during the same time when 70% of spring-born calves are born, which could work against producers trying to rebuild the national herd, the analysis said.<\/p>\n

New York State Commissioner of Agriculture Richard Ball said the decision has made New York beef producers feel uneasy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to see how that helps the beef industry grow here. I think the biggest enemy is uncertainty,\u201d Ball said. \u201cFor our own producers, I think they see this as a confusing signal. ‘Do I grow my business here or not?’ “<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been in the process of changing how beef sold in grocery stores is labeled, but it has yet to be finalized. In July, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said the department launched a campaign to adopt a label identifying meat, eggs, and poultry products as \u201cproducts of the USA.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe product of the USA label gives consumers confidence that the meat, poultry and egg products they purchase come from animals born, raised, harvested and processed right here in the United States,\u201d Rollins said in a press release.<\/p>\n

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Ribbons on the table in the beef barn. (Spectrum News 1\/Emily Kenny)<\/p>\n

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However, Ball said because this hasn\u2019t been fully implemented, it could lead to confusion for consumers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to know and it\u2019s hard to trace. We know what we do in the United States. What kind of standards we have. In New York, for example, we are very familiar with that and intimately involved with that. When something is coming from another country, I think it\u2019s fair for a consumer to question how it was raised, how it was handled, how it was processed,\u201d Ball said.<\/p>\n

The USDA monitors and tracks good coming in and out of the country, and the department does require inspections, but Ball said the best way to know where meat is coming from is to purchase from a local producer.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, the economic benefit as well as the local flavor, knowing where your food comes from, that\u2019s New York. That\u2019s what we\u2019re all about. That\u2019s what we hang our hats on every day,\u201d Ball said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, President Donald Trump announced he will allow beef into the U.S. from other countries without a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3478,288,257,8255,9,11,10,49,51,50,12],"class_list":["post-334737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-app-local-business","tag-business","tag-central-ny","tag-emily-kenny","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}