November 26, 2025 • 18 mins
Host and American Family Farmer, Doug Stephan www.eastleighfarm.com shares the biggest news affecting family farmers, starting off with an extension of the Farm Bill, part of what President Trump signed into law to end the government shutdown. The bill extended the Farm Bill from 2018 for another year. The American Farm Bureau and the National Farmers Union are expressing hope that Congress will focus on policies and not politics.
Next, the focus is on Thanksgiving with rising costs of turkeys, and raising questions if the bird flu has anything to do with increased prices.
Then, Doug breaks down the COOL Bill — Country of Origin Labelling. It’s alarming that most consumers don’t know where their food, especially meat, is coming from. All the more reason for consumers to connect more with their local farmers to know from where their meet comes, how it’s raised, the processing semantics, and if any antibiotics or other chemicals are being used.
Lastly, Farmer Doug opines a recent post from Trump to his Truth Social account about asking the Department of Justice to begin an investigation into the meat packing companies that are driving up the price of beef.
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Next, the focus is on Thanksgiving with rising costs of turkeys, and raising questions if the bird flu has anything to do with increased prices.
Then, Doug breaks down the COOL Bill — Country of Origin Labelling. It’s alarming that most consumers don’t know where their food, especially meat, is coming from. All the more reason for consumers to connect more with their local farmers to know from where their meet comes, how it’s raised, the processing semantics, and if any antibiotics or other chemicals are being used.
Lastly, Farmer Doug opines a recent post from Trump to his Truth Social account about asking the Department of Justice to begin an investigation into the meat packing companies that are driving up the price of beef.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The American Family Farmer podcast, sponsored in part by Caldron,
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out at toploss dot com. I'm Doug Stephan. This is
the American Family Farmer. We do begin the program every
week with an overview of what's going on news wise
that affects the American Family Farmer. So let us do
(00:21):
just that with a discussion first of the extension of
the Farm Bill. And the bill is part of what
the President signed into law last week to end that
what was it fifty days or some ridiculous thing the
government was shut down.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
How much did it cost you the taxpayer? How much
did it cost you.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
The farmer in unearned or earned revenue?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I don't know that anybody can really calculate that.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But one of the things, as I mentioned, that the
bill did do, is extend the Farm Bill from twenty
eighteen another year. So each year what's not written in stone,
but what has been and the tradition is the Farm
Bill gets renewed every five years, and it affects some
farmers more than it does others.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
The larger you are, I suppose, the more.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
You hang on to some of the provisions that have been,
by the way, updated since the July budget reconciliation package.
The chairman of the House Ad Committee is Glenn Thompson
from Pennsylvania, and he said that the focus is back
on delivering real solutions, as if what has been going
(01:29):
on isn't real and it isn't really real. He said,
quote extending the current farm bill gives us the time
needed to finalize Farm Bill two point zero, a bipartisan
package that bills on the success of the one big,
beautiful Bill. I guess we could question how successful that
bill is at this point in time. I think the
jury is still out anyway, he said. The opening or
(01:53):
reopening of the government is a relief to the American
people and to the American farmer. It inflicted unnecessary and
on farm families, duh. And so anyway, those people who are.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Waiting for farm loans.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
The business of disruption is.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Over, at least for now. Actually in terms of actually
what is I don't want to use that word twice.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
The deal to wind the shutdown moved the entire budget,
but it's only until next January and then they'll be
back at the same thing all over again. The Department
of Agriculture funding extended for a full year, even though
everything else is only extended till January thirtieth.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
So that's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Also, by the way, funding for the Veterans Affairs and
the FDA and congressional operations part of resuming normal operations,
and it will extend until September thirtieth of next year,
when a new farm.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Bill is supposed to be ready.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
We'll all believe that when we see it, right, So,
the American Farm Bureau in the National Farmers' Union expressing
hope that Congress will focus on policies and not politics.
Farmers rely on critical USDA services, said mister Duval who's
the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, and so
(03:22):
he acknowledges that it's a tough time. We all need
to know, all of us who are farmers know it's
a tough time for American farmers. The Farmers' Union president
Rob LaRue said that they were relieved the Congress.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Okay, so all of this is boiler plate bs, but
you get the point at any rate.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Okay, Next in focus, it's Thanksgiving and the prices for
turkeys are up like you wouldn't believe, and some people
have asked whether or not the bird flew has impacted
the cost of the turkey and whatever else you're going
to be having for holiday dinners this year. And I
(04:04):
think I think that's yeah. I think that's probably part
of it from what I've been reading. Anyway, So we
have Thanksgiving next week, and then it's Christmas, then it's
New Year's and on and on we go. Let's see here,
Minnesota is the turkey production capital of the world. Did
you know that six hundred farmers produce forty million.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Birds a year? Aa banga. So let's see what else.
North Carolina guess is number two with the twenty nine
minion this year. Let's see.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I find it interesting, by the way, as a subtext
to this, that in Minnesota they're only four hundred farmers
that produce sixty five percent of all of the of
the turkeys, and most of those farms are family owned.
Ninety percent of the turkeys are raised on farms that
are family farms, which is kind of a cool thing.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
The aviation, the aviation good dog, the avian flu hit
Minnesota hard this year, and that's one of the reasons,
one of the many reasons that the cost of a
bird is up seventy percent from last year.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Can you believe it? Seventy percent? I was musing as.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
We listened to the President and his bs about the
prices things going down.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
That's not true, and most consumers know that.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
They may come to you if you're a turkey person
or someone who has raised a lot of vegetables and
fruits this year and people complaining about the price increases.
The turkey is a seasonal item, a lot of opportunities
for shoppers to look around for other venues. But I'm
(05:54):
not guessing looking at some of the prices this year,
you're going to find them in the grocery store, at
the arm or where it.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Is usually there's a special feature.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
A lot of people buy turkeys in places where, if
it's not on the farm itself in a supermarket, they
use them as a lost leader for everything else, and
the prices are then higher on the other things that
are being so let's see egg production also hit hard
and that is.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Going to affect the price.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Well, we've already seen the price affected as far as
the eggs are concerned, So not many specials this year.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
The price of chicken.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Is holding steady in some areas it's down a little bit.
Shoppers are likely to find lower prices on a few
things like baking items. Let's see here, prices on meats, hams, steaks,
eggs were a buck sixty more this year than they
were last.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Year at this time.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
And so the looking at some of the other things.
Cranberry for example, which is a popular item.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
As we know, the.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Twelve bounce bags of Cranberry's were two forty five last year.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
There were two thirty seven. So that's not a big deal.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Let's see the price of ham five point fifty three
a pound, up from three to seventeen a pound last year.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Okay, so that's what's going on.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
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Back in the news department here on the American Family
Farmer program, Doug Steffen focusing on country of origin labeling
the cool bill. This is one of the I don't
understand whether there's any controversy involved in this.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Well. I don't think there is among those of us
who are in the.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Farming community because for the past what four or five
six decades, family farmers have been sounding the alarm about
the consolidation of agriculture. The big four meat packers manipulate prices,
and that certainly hurts our family farmers.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
It doesn't do the consumer any good either, And.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
A lot of this stuff comes as a result of
not having not knowing where the food that you're buying,
especially meat, where it's coming from. I was in the
American Airlines lounge yesterday in Los Angeles and they were
promoting Argentinian beef.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
They had a plate that was made it was an
Argentinian It was Argentinian beef and.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Some kind of sauce or something, but they were highlighting it,
which I thought it didn't well people who are thinking
about it anyway wouldn't. I'm not interested in I don't
eat meat anyway, but I am not interested in buying
things that are not grown in our own country. And
the way we can learn about that is to have
(11:58):
country of our labeling. I want to know where the
food comes from. You want to know where the food
comes from. Consumers want to be able to choose whether
it's American bee for poultry or pork or whatever it is.
So you can do a lot by telling Congress it's
time to reinstate mandatory country of origin labeling.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
It's called the COOL bill.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
And if the Trump administration is good for their word,
then we and they're not much because the trade wars
are not doing anything but hurting the American family farmer.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
We all kind of know that.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
So at any rate, that's the update on COOL and
stuff coming into the country from elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Back on the American family farmer.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
It's my time to tell you what I think about
an issue that's a very important focus, or maybe in
my mind it ought to be very important focus because
there are things going on now we all know it
we all sense it, we all feel it.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
A lot of people. This is not this program is
not about politics. I don't like doing politics.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I never did like doing politics on the Monday through
Friday program that I did for thirty six years that
was syndicated, and before that, when I was doing individual
markets from Cincinnati to Los Angeles, Boston, I didn't like
politics because it doesn't get you anywhere. But I will
tell you that there's a lot of damage being done.
(13:33):
And we all see this in all the facets of
the political reality.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
People who love Trump, people who don't like Trump, and
what it is that needs attention.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
For example, the President says, and I'm quoting from something
that he had on his webs on.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
What is truth social and his social media.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I've asked the Department of Justice to begin and investigation
into the meat packing companies who are driving up the
prices of beef.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So it's not about the farmer.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
In his mind, he thinks that collusion, price fixing, price
manipulation is being done on the part of the producers
and not the people who are growing. So let's examine
that for just a second. American farmers are being blamed
for what's being done by many of the foreign owned
(14:29):
meat packers.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
See, if you dig in a little bit, I have said.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
And I've made it very clear that I think that
Trump is wrong on a.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Lot of these things.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
But he's right on a lot of these things, but
we don't get the news media to dig into. That's
kind of one of the reasons that I do these
opinion pieces, because I dig around to find out what,
hopefully is the real story.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Am I happy that the monopolies exist.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
No, you shouldn't be either, these big corporations that are,
according to Trump, criminally profiting at the expense of the
American people. So anyway, he's got the Department of Justice.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Which leaves a lot to be desired. Ms Bondi is
not really much of an attorney general.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
But if there's some noise being made, if people are
trying to get to the heart of it, and that's
why I was talking earlier about the country of origin labeling,
which would go a long way to helping the public
understand where the meat comes from. You know, the Chinese
owned the largest port producing company in the world, and
(15:38):
it's an American company. Why the hell does the Chinese
own an American company? And this is happening all over
the place. They've been trying to buy up other companies
like that and consolidate. You've got Cargill as an example,
eight am, some of these other huge companies that are
in collusion with foreign owned meat packers. They bring in
(16:00):
the meat because it's cheaper from someplace else, and they
sell it to you and you don't know where it
comes from, and it's just a damnable situation. So in
this circumstance, Trump is right, but you got to dig
into what the reality is because at first he said, well,
I'm going to help the American people by buying Argentinian beef,
(16:22):
and that's going to screw the farmer.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
But that's okay, because you know, he.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Has a different rationale, as we all know for lots
of things every day.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Don't kid yourself.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
However, the trade war that's going on has collateral damage
that extends far.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Beyond what we're talking about here.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
The meat packers, the corn, the fertilizer, all the things
that we are having to pay for building materials. The
teriff driven inflation is squeezing most of the farmers that
I know, and it's actually threatening the survival of farms
and they're the backbone of our country. I mean, we've
(17:03):
said this forever and ever and ever. It's more important
than ever for you to stay ahead of what's going
on in Washington and actually around the world as well,
because there are these trickle.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Down effects that I'm talking about, bad policy, etc. Etc.
So Trump getting to the.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Companies that are actually many of them have contributed to
his campaign, the companies that are creating the circumstances for
consumers to have to pay more.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
And it isn't.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Really the farmer, although I don't know that he's helping
the farmer directly.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
It's just these free trade.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Things are so difficult to understand, and you know that's
keeping a lot of people out of farming. People can't
afford to get into it because of things like this.
My thoughts on the country of original labeling and imports.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
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Speaker 1 (18:03):
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The American Family Farmer podcast, sponsored in part by Caldron,
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the American Family Farmer. We do begin the program every
week with an overview of what's going on news wise
that affects the American Family Farmer. So let us do
(00:21):
just that with a discussion first of the extension of
the Farm Bill. And the bill is part of what
the President signed into law last week to end that
what was it fifty days or some ridiculous thing the
government was shut down.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
How much did it cost you the taxpayer? How much
did it cost you.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
The farmer in unearned or earned revenue?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I don't know that anybody can really calculate that.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But one of the things, as I mentioned, that the
bill did do, is extend the Farm Bill from twenty
eighteen another year. So each year what's not written in stone,
but what has been and the tradition is the Farm
Bill gets renewed every five years, and it affects some
farmers more than it does others.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
The larger you are, I suppose, the more.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
You hang on to some of the provisions that have been,
by the way, updated since the July budget reconciliation package.
The chairman of the House Ad Committee is Glenn Thompson
from Pennsylvania, and he said that the focus is back
on delivering real solutions, as if what has been going
(01:29):
on isn't real and it isn't really real. He said,
quote extending the current farm bill gives us the time
needed to finalize Farm Bill two point zero, a bipartisan
package that bills on the success of the one big,
beautiful Bill. I guess we could question how successful that
bill is at this point in time. I think the
jury is still out anyway, he said. The opening or
(01:53):
reopening of the government is a relief to the American
people and to the American farmer. It inflicted unnecessary and
on farm families, duh. And so anyway, those people who are.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Waiting for farm loans.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
The business of disruption is.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Over, at least for now. Actually in terms of actually
what is I don't want to use that word twice.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
The deal to wind the shutdown moved the entire budget,
but it's only until next January and then they'll be
back at the same thing all over again. The Department
of Agriculture funding extended for a full year, even though
everything else is only extended till January thirtieth.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
So that's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Also, by the way, funding for the Veterans Affairs and
the FDA and congressional operations part of resuming normal operations,
and it will extend until September thirtieth of next year,
when a new farm.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Bill is supposed to be ready.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
We'll all believe that when we see it, right, So,
the American Farm Bureau in the National Farmers' Union expressing
hope that Congress will focus on policies and not politics.
Farmers rely on critical USDA services, said mister Duval who's
the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, and so
(03:22):
he acknowledges that it's a tough time. We all need
to know, all of us who are farmers know it's
a tough time for American farmers. The Farmers' Union president
Rob LaRue said that they were relieved the Congress.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Okay, so all of this is boiler plate bs, but
you get the point at any rate.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Okay, Next in focus, it's Thanksgiving and the prices for
turkeys are up like you wouldn't believe, and some people
have asked whether or not the bird flew has impacted
the cost of the turkey and whatever else you're going
to be having for holiday dinners this year. And I
(04:04):
think I think that's yeah. I think that's probably part
of it from what I've been reading. Anyway, So we
have Thanksgiving next week, and then it's Christmas, then it's
New Year's and on and on we go. Let's see here,
Minnesota is the turkey production capital of the world. Did
you know that six hundred farmers produce forty million.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Birds a year? Aa banga. So let's see what else.
North Carolina guess is number two with the twenty nine
minion this year. Let's see.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I find it interesting, by the way, as a subtext
to this, that in Minnesota they're only four hundred farmers
that produce sixty five percent of all of the of
the turkeys, and most of those farms are family owned.
Ninety percent of the turkeys are raised on farms that
are family farms, which is kind of a cool thing.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
The aviation, the aviation good dog, the avian flu hit
Minnesota hard this year, and that's one of the reasons,
one of the many reasons that the cost of a
bird is up seventy percent from last year.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Can you believe it? Seventy percent? I was musing as.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
We listened to the President and his bs about the
prices things going down.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
That's not true, and most consumers know that.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
They may come to you if you're a turkey person
or someone who has raised a lot of vegetables and
fruits this year and people complaining about the price increases.
The turkey is a seasonal item, a lot of opportunities
for shoppers to look around for other venues. But I'm
(05:54):
not guessing looking at some of the prices this year,
you're going to find them in the grocery store, at
the arm or where it.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Is usually there's a special feature.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
A lot of people buy turkeys in places where, if
it's not on the farm itself in a supermarket, they
use them as a lost leader for everything else, and
the prices are then higher on the other things that
are being so let's see egg production also hit hard
and that is.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Going to affect the price.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Well, we've already seen the price affected as far as
the eggs are concerned, So not many specials this year.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
The price of chicken.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Is holding steady in some areas it's down a little bit.
Shoppers are likely to find lower prices on a few
things like baking items. Let's see here, prices on meats, hams, steaks,
eggs were a buck sixty more this year than they
were last.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Year at this time.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
And so the looking at some of the other things.
Cranberry for example, which is a popular item.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
As we know, the.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Twelve bounce bags of Cranberry's were two forty five last year.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
There were two thirty seven. So that's not a big deal.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Let's see the price of ham five point fifty three
a pound, up from three to seventeen a pound last year.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Okay, so that's what's going on.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
The alarm on consolidation and agriculture is what we talk
about next. First though, I want to call your attention
what's going on with the folks who produce calatron. Calatron
C A L O t R E N is this
country's best way to lose weight. It's not a government program, obviously,
(07:46):
but it's something that was approved by the government because
the process is all done in an FDA approved laboratory.
All of the things are non toxic. There's nothing in
the there's no drug, none of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
It's all natural.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So when you're looking to your weight, check the website
for Calitrin, which is toploss dot com and see how
the program.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Can be right for you. And I especially urge you
to get on it right now so you don't wait
until you put the weight on after the holiday season.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
And to encourage you to do that, this weekend special
at toploss dot com from Calitrin is to buy four
and get four free, plus you get a free detox
cleanser detox complex with your order, huge discount fifty percent.
It's a Bogo deal, buy one, get one free.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
You find it at top looss dot com.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Why not go there and see what's so amazing about
this product and why it has lasted for almost thirty years,
been on the market for almost thirty years. By the way,
if you're wondering about the detox complex, it assists with
the elimination of colon waste in your system, promotes reduced bloating,
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Back in the news department here on the American Family
Farmer program, Doug Steffen focusing on country of origin labeling
the cool bill. This is one of the I don't
understand whether there's any controversy involved in this.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Well. I don't think there is among those of us
who are in the.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Farming community because for the past what four or five
six decades, family farmers have been sounding the alarm about
the consolidation of agriculture. The big four meat packers manipulate prices,
and that certainly hurts our family farmers.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
It doesn't do the consumer any good either, And.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
A lot of this stuff comes as a result of
not having not knowing where the food that you're buying,
especially meat, where it's coming from. I was in the
American Airlines lounge yesterday in Los Angeles and they were
promoting Argentinian beef.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
They had a plate that was made it was an
Argentinian It was Argentinian beef and.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Some kind of sauce or something, but they were highlighting it,
which I thought it didn't well people who are thinking
about it anyway wouldn't. I'm not interested in I don't
eat meat anyway, but I am not interested in buying
things that are not grown in our own country. And
the way we can learn about that is to have
(11:58):
country of our labeling. I want to know where the
food comes from. You want to know where the food
comes from. Consumers want to be able to choose whether
it's American bee for poultry or pork or whatever it is.
So you can do a lot by telling Congress it's
time to reinstate mandatory country of origin labeling.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
It's called the COOL bill.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
And if the Trump administration is good for their word,
then we and they're not much because the trade wars
are not doing anything but hurting the American family farmer.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
We all kind of know that.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
So at any rate, that's the update on COOL and
stuff coming into the country from elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Back on the American family farmer.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
It's my time to tell you what I think about
an issue that's a very important focus, or maybe in
my mind it ought to be very important focus because
there are things going on now we all know it
we all sense it, we all feel it.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
A lot of people. This is not this program is
not about politics. I don't like doing politics.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I never did like doing politics on the Monday through
Friday program that I did for thirty six years that
was syndicated, and before that, when I was doing individual
markets from Cincinnati to Los Angeles, Boston, I didn't like
politics because it doesn't get you anywhere. But I will
tell you that there's a lot of damage being done.
(13:33):
And we all see this in all the facets of
the political reality.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
People who love Trump, people who don't like Trump, and
what it is that needs attention.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
For example, the President says, and I'm quoting from something
that he had on his webs on.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
What is truth social and his social media.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I've asked the Department of Justice to begin and investigation
into the meat packing companies who are driving up the
prices of beef.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So it's not about the farmer.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
In his mind, he thinks that collusion, price fixing, price
manipulation is being done on the part of the producers
and not the people who are growing. So let's examine
that for just a second. American farmers are being blamed
for what's being done by many of the foreign owned
(14:29):
meat packers.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
See, if you dig in a little bit, I have said.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
And I've made it very clear that I think that
Trump is wrong on a.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Lot of these things.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
But he's right on a lot of these things, but
we don't get the news media to dig into. That's
kind of one of the reasons that I do these
opinion pieces, because I dig around to find out what,
hopefully is the real story.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Am I happy that the monopolies exist.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
No, you shouldn't be either, these big corporations that are,
according to Trump, criminally profiting at the expense of the
American people. So anyway, he's got the Department of Justice.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Which leaves a lot to be desired. Ms Bondi is
not really much of an attorney general.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
But if there's some noise being made, if people are
trying to get to the heart of it, and that's
why I was talking earlier about the country of origin labeling,
which would go a long way to helping the public
understand where the meat comes from. You know, the Chinese
owned the largest port producing company in the world, and
(15:38):
it's an American company. Why the hell does the Chinese
own an American company? And this is happening all over
the place. They've been trying to buy up other companies
like that and consolidate. You've got Cargill as an example,
eight am, some of these other huge companies that are
in collusion with foreign owned meat packers. They bring in
(16:00):
the meat because it's cheaper from someplace else, and they
sell it to you and you don't know where it
comes from, and it's just a damnable situation. So in
this circumstance, Trump is right, but you got to dig
into what the reality is because at first he said, well,
I'm going to help the American people by buying Argentinian beef,
(16:22):
and that's going to screw the farmer.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
But that's okay, because you know, he.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Has a different rationale, as we all know for lots
of things every day.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Don't kid yourself.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
However, the trade war that's going on has collateral damage
that extends far.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Beyond what we're talking about here.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
The meat packers, the corn, the fertilizer, all the things
that we are having to pay for building materials. The
teriff driven inflation is squeezing most of the farmers that
I know, and it's actually threatening the survival of farms
and they're the backbone of our country. I mean, we've
(17:03):
said this forever and ever and ever. It's more important
than ever for you to stay ahead of what's going
on in Washington and actually around the world as well,
because there are these trickle.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Down effects that I'm talking about, bad policy, etc. Etc.
So Trump getting to the.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Companies that are actually many of them have contributed to
his campaign, the companies that are creating the circumstances for
consumers to have to pay more.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
And it isn't.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Really the farmer, although I don't know that he's helping
the farmer directly.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
It's just these free trade.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Things are so difficult to understand, and you know that's
keeping a lot of people out of farming. People can't
afford to get into it because of things like this.
My thoughts on the country of original labeling and imports.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Here on The American Family Farmer, I'm Doug Stephan. This
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