{"id":15727,"date":"2025-11-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fact-not-fiction-about-argentine-beef-imports\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:34:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:34:54","slug":"fact-not-fiction-about-argentine-beef-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fact-not-fiction-about-argentine-beef-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact, not fiction, about Argentine beef imports"},"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>My letter is in response to \u201cMake Argentina Great Again\u201d (Letters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-journal.com\/articles\/make-argentina-great-again\/\" id=\"link-39f167c7a880ecddcab4bd0260991bdc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em id=\"emphasis-3e243c904d3d0ac350d251858ea56b4c\">Journal<\/em><\/a>, Oct. 29). First, I want to make clear I\u2019m neither a Trump hater nor supporter. I am an independent who thinks for myself, using facts rather than the rants of others to make decisions. Growing up on a farm and ranch, I support our farmers and ranchers. What I don\u2019t support are those who let their agendas spout lies, hoping others will believe them.<\/p>\n<p>In the Oct. 29 letter, the author wrote, \u201cIt\u2019s also fabulous that you\u2019re (Trump) going to buy their fine beef to lower our inflated food costs.\u201d That statement is not factual. Our government is not buying Argentine beef. Here\u2019s what is actually happening: From Reuters News, Oct. 24: \u201cRaising the tariff rate quota on Argentine beef to 80,000 metric tons will let the country ship more of its beef to the U.S. at a lower rate of duty. U.S. beef prices have set records due to tight cattle supplies and strong consumer demand.\u201d The U.S. government is not buy<em id=\"emphasis-f210facc56147443a8aeaed74b0d7e0f\">ing<\/em> Argentine beef, it\u2019s allowing more in at the same lower tariff rate as the original quota of 20,000 tons.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. consumes 12 million metric tons\/year. The increase of 60,000 tons is 0.005 of the amount we consume. I \u2013 and the experts \u2013 suggest that\u2019s not enough to lower near record beef prices, not hurting or helping anyone in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rick Corbitt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-915580f2682c3753eacfcb635e0ebd83\">Dolores<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My letter is in response to \u201cMake Argentina Great Again\u201d (Letters, Journal, Oct. 29). First, I want to make clear I\u2019m neither a Trump hater nor supporter. I am an independent who thinks for myself, using facts rather than the rants of others to make decisions. Growing up on a farm and ranch, I [&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-15727","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\/15727","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=15727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19810,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15727\/revisions\/19810"}],"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=15727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15727"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}