{"id":15611,"date":"2025-11-23T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/beef-prices-civil-discourse-and-farewell-to-producers\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:34:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:34:29","slug":"beef-prices-civil-discourse-and-farewell-to-producers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/beef-prices-civil-discourse-and-farewell-to-producers\/","title":{"rendered":"Beef prices, civil discourse and farewell to producers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ba4ce41-a358-5d9b-b360-ebd942a1f4df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"1680\" height=\"958\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thank you, Mr. Rick Corbett, (Letters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-journal.com\/articles\/fact-not-fiction-about-argentine-beef-imports\/\" id=\"link-8e63fe371b5c935c6b0beff079bbc6eb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em id=\"emphasis-b11349407c33612152bd66df4a85240c\">Journal<\/em><\/a>, Nov. 14) for your well-reasoned, intellectual statistical response to my earlier Argentina post (Letters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-journal.com\/articles\/make-argentina-great-again\/\" id=\"link-3aad2077597cc6957bc9c6b274c404ff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em id=\"emphasis-39ce56d6d7ca78318977a09220112dd9\">Journal<\/em><\/a>, Oct. 29). This is exactly what I\u2019ve been hoping for in the Age of Trump \u2013 civil discourse rather than suppression of dissent.<\/p>\n<p>Since I first wrote, other developments have unfolded: USA regional beef councils have announced that Mr. Trump has \u201cstuck it to them,\u201d and the president himself has implicated USA ranchers for high beef prices \u2013 even as producers correctly argue they have no margin under our current economic regime. It raises an uncomfortable question: Could our president be pandering to angry consumers at the expense of his loyal MAGA supporters?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been buying local grass-pastured beef directly from producers by the half for many years. It\u2019s a fine product. But I do have to agree with our president that prices are too high, and that lower-priced Argentine beef imports make sense.<\/p>\n<p>During my international travels, Argentine beef was a staple, and it stacks up well against anything produced here.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a nice time, and I wish our local ranchers well in their endeavors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Allen Barnhouse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-81e24ad2c3af2c36faa604f859cb92fc\">Cortez<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, Mr. Rick Corbett, (Letters, Journal, Nov. 14) for your well-reasoned, intellectual statistical response to my earlier Argentina post (Letters, Journal, Oct. 29). This is exactly what I\u2019ve been hoping for in the Age of Trump \u2013 civil discourse rather than suppression of dissent. Since I first wrote, other developments have unfolded: USA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[125],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-15611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter-opinion"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19748,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15611\/revisions\/19748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15611"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}