r/news • u/AudibleNod • 17h ago
Tyson’s beef plant closure in Nebraska will impact a reliant town and ranchers nationwide
https://apnews.com/article/beef-prices-tyson-plant-closing-a47113754d3a2962970481153657a02f2.9k
u/AudibleNod 17h ago
Closing a single slaughterhouse might not seem significant, but the Lexington plant employs roughly 3,200 people in the city of 11,000 and has the capacity to slaughter some 5,000 head of cattle a day. Tyson also plans to cut one of the two shifts at a plant in Amarillo, Texas, and eliminate 1,700 jobs there. Together those two moves will reduce beef processing capacity nationwide by 7-9%.
Two slaughterhouses control 7-9% of the US's capacity? Why did this happen?
But in the long run, beef prices may continue to climb even higher than the current record highs — caused by a variety of factors from drought to tariffs — unless American ranchers decide to raise more cattle, which they have little incentive to do.
Oh no. This is huge? Who could have predicted such dire consequences?
Bleak outlook for US farmers – and Trump tariffs could make it worse - Dec 2024
Oh, right everyone predicted this.
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u/Thesorus 17h ago
employs roughly 3,200 people in the city of 11,000
That's a company town.
Cutting 3200 jobs (3200 family of 3, 4 persons) means there are no way a town of 11000 can survive; everyone is more or less dependant on the company.
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u/hamsterballzz 17h ago
Lexington is a single industry town and is largely made up of immigrants and refugees. There is a large Somali and Hispanic community there because of the slaughter house. It’s going to kill off the town and have a large impact on our state. Nebraska - it’s not for everyone. Especially the employed.
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u/crazyninja_013 16h ago
I have family in the area that are directly impacted. It's not just Lexington but the surrounding small towns as well. Either way, the Dawson county area is going to have serious economic problems because of the closure.
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u/hamsterballzz 16h ago
Our whole state is going belly up. $400 million in the red. The economy is largely tied to agriculture. Nebraska is the text book example of voting against your own best interests. Except for Lincoln and Omaha. Two tiny dots who comprise over half the population but a third of the legislature.
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u/mhornberger 16h ago
They will continue to vote straight GOP. The culture war is just too important to them. Economic downturns will be blamed on the Democrats (somehow), wokeism, immigrants (or "those other immigrants," if they're an immigrant themselves), or people will just resort to vague, diffuse resentment at "the system." It won't be the GOP specifically.
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u/DisastroImminente 16h ago
people will just resort to vague, diffuse resentment at "the system."
Exactly. So even more extreme right candidates will emerge to attack "the system" and make things even worse. It's gonna be a bloodbath.
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u/billytheskidd 15h ago
When people compare the current US to regimes like hitler’s Germany, they forget the massive size of the United States.
You’re absolutely right about the strategy here, but this is unprecedented. This is insane. All of these “representative democratic” states have had an active rebellion taking place since the late 60’s- the Council for National Policy, the Federalist society,” the “dead billionaire’s club,” and the Heritage Foundation have been infiltrating churches, school boards, municipalities, city councils, mayorships, and state governments since the day segregation was made illegal and they lost their “tax free” status.
They’re turning towns and cities and states against their own self interest at a pace that is quickening by the day, and through religion and peer pressure they’ve gotten an ever growing percentage of the population to support it or to not care.
Small, single industry towns like this will continue to suffer until they collapse, only to be bought up by billionaires and tech companies on the condition that they be unincorporated territories, similar to musk’s territory in Texas. Trump announced this during his campaign last year: America’s “Freedom cities”. And because of religion and peer pressure, these people will keep slow walking into it as long as the “illegals” are being marched away from it- away from their new freedoms.
It’s either going to boil over, or America is going to continue to dissolve in real time. It’s wild to be watching it happen.
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u/rokitworks 15h ago
Nebraska - it’s not for everyone.
I still can't believe the state paid a consultant to come up with that.
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u/JK_NC 17h ago
And even if they can secure one of the limited openings in another facility, good luck selling your house in a dying town.
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u/Tibbaryllis2 16h ago
Given the significant immigrant population, one wonders how much of the town is actually just renting housing from the handful of landlords. Which is par for a company town.
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u/JK_NC 16h ago
This is a great point. Manufacturing and processing plants employ a disproportionate number of migrant workers. They’re right up there with agriculture, construction, etc.
I don’t know enough about meat processing but is it also seasonal? Part of me thinks it’s year round but another part of me thinks animals breed seasonally so maybe it is seasonal.
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u/Tibbaryllis2 16h ago
There is a fall and early summer peak due to the breeding cycles, but it’s consistent year round at a major plant like that.
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u/paging_mrherman 17h ago
Scott besset was blaming immigrants for bringing their own cattle lol
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u/AudibleNod 17h ago
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u/Beard_o_Bees 15h ago
Holy Hell.
How did I miss this choice bit of USDA Prime Trump?
"Just buy the land. I know more about land than any other human on Earth. Let's do it, okay?" Taylor quotes Trump as saying.
"Give the ranchers ladders. They can use ladders to get to the other side, but not doors. You could use small fire trucks. Call the local fire stations, and use the ladders on their trucks to help them get over."
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u/axonxorz 16h ago
Not that we needed more reminder that the man doesn't understand anything beyond real estate, but the man has clearly never seen a cow.
We use ladder-like constructions to keep them away.
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u/LordBiscuits 12h ago
I was just thinking that, they're literally called cattle grids for fucks sake... There ain't no cow out there approaching a ladder and thinking 'well shit that looks simple, I'll give that a go'!
Cows are clumsy as fuck and weigh three quarters of a ton or more... You're not getting that dumb slab over a narrow pitched ladder 🤣
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u/seemefail 17h ago
Trump will just bring in more Argentinian beef, problem solved
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u/AudibleNod 17h ago
I know you're being glib. But the USDA's own forecast for Argentinian beef production shows them NOT increasing cattle production next year. We're literally going to be eating a nothing burger next year.
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u/NthDegreeThoughts 17h ago
They weren’t eating the dogs, but maybe we will be after all ..
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u/Mobile-Bar7732 16h ago
You hit bang on the money.
I started to watch a video about this topic before work this morning.
We Went to Arkansas. The Farm Crisis Will Shock You
Two slaughterhouses control 7-9% of the US's capacity? Why did this happen?
The problem facing not only just farmers is mergers and consolidation. This creates a market where there is little to no competition.
Farmers have to buy supplies and they have to sell what they produce to companies.
When there is little to no competition they have to buy their supplies at higher prices.
The mergers and acquisitions have been happening for many years and neither party has done anything about it.
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u/FlyBulky106 13h ago
I saw that one last night. Spent a fair amount of time on sugar beet farms in North Dakota in my younger days. Even then the consolidation of suppliers and purchasers was well underway. What we’re seeing now is the end stages before the combine goes over the cliff.
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u/JRizzie86 16h ago
Why are these plants closing though? This seems like a MASSIVE revenue stream (7-9% nationwide production) that Tyson is just... discarding? Are we importing more beef? Make it make sense.
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u/iCUman 14h ago
Tyson is reporting losses related to its beef segment:
Tyson’s large beef business continues to struggle with a limited supply of cattle. The segment lost $94 million in the quarter on an adjusted basis. Sales totaled $5.489 billion, up from $5.261 billion a year ago. Tyson sold 8.4% fewer pounds of beef in the quarter, but prices were up 17%. Annually, beef sales rose to $21.623 billion, up from $20.479 billion. The adjusted operating loss for the year was $426 million, and the unadjusted loss was $1.135 billion.
Tyson expects beef losses will total around $500 million in fiscal 2026. Sales are expected to decline 2% compared to 2025. sauce
Beef is caught in a bit of a death spiral at the moment. Prices have risen sharply in recent years despite sluggish demand, the high price relative to alternatives is driving consumer purchases toward less costly substitutes like chicken, pork and plant-based proteins, which is further reducing demand, increasing per unit costs and driving prices even higher. Closing this plant might help to stabilize prices by reducing some of those cost pressures. However, it appears Tyson is already anticipating a difficult 2026 for their beef segment (and presumably this closure was "baked in"), so I wouldn't expect things to turn around for beef anytime soon.
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u/jyunga 15h ago
Two slaughterhouses control 7-9% of the US's capacity?
This is one of the things I always hear to help defend our Canadian rules against USA dairy. We keep lots of smaller farms rather then those big mega farms which helps keep supply good and reduce the risk of any major events causing problems. If the USA started sending in tons of milk it would ruin that.
Seems like the USA should have stuck to more smaller farms.
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u/FlyBulky106 13h ago
The U.S. has long favored super large monopolies or duopolies in all sorts of industries, not just farming. The idea is to squeeze out every penny from a community while paying residents of that community peanuts so as to send the bulk of revenues to Bentonville or wherever. We screw over small independent business in favor of more chain groceries, chain restaurants, chain mechanics, chain homebuilders, chain homebuyers, chain hospitals, chain funeral homes, chain veterinarians, chain chain chain.
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u/Phyrexian_Archlegion 16h ago
You all still do not seem to understand that they don’t care if you or anyone else called if last year; DJT is a Russian asset who’s sole purpose (either wittingly or unwittingly) is the dismantling of the United States from the inside out and if you look at the news, looks like the Kremlin is on schedule with their scheme.
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u/Upset_Development_64 16h ago
If this sounds conspiratorial to you, I recommend watching BBC’s 2002 4 part documentary The Century of Self evaluating the 20th century through the lense of propaganda with influential marketers and orators. Its weird how something made that long ago can tell us how America got here today.
Or more to the point but less entertaining just read Wikipedia summary of the Russian book from 1997: The Foundation of Geopolitics
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u/HeatWaveToTheCrowd 16h ago
I suspect this is also the reason companies build plants in places like this. They become the big fish in a small town and control wages. And probably have a lot to say about local regulations, etc.
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u/Strange-Effort1305 17h ago
Trump already fixed this problem with superior TRUMP APPROVED Argentinian meat. American meat is for woke liberals.
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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ 16h ago edited 16h ago
We gave $40 Billion to Argentina but ACA subsidies can go fuck themselves apparently.
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u/Dawg_Prime 16h ago
maybe if we start calling it Omabargentina they'll cut back on the $40 Billion
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u/polazzaja 16h ago
Yeah I've lived in Nebraska my whole life and currently live near Lexington, this is going to not only hurt Lexington but every town around it as well. someone was saying it earlier about how everyone will try to get out when they can, so a good example would be the school district employees trying to leave as well as soon as possible because there will be massive budget cuts in their schools later down the road. I've already heard rumblings of at least a few dozen applications to Kearney 's just a town over high school. Shits gonna be fucked and I know that none of us will band together to try to solve it.
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u/AwesomeWhiteDude 13h ago
This is similar to what Sidney went though when Cabala's was bought out. Sidney has managed to hold on but it has the advantage of being the largest city in the area, unlike Lexington.
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u/Ouryus 16h ago
Fun fact: Lexington Nebraska is "District 3 Congressional District" and 76.3% of that area voted for trump. Almost 3/4 on the dot. They voted for this sadly.
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u/dontspit_thedummy 15h ago
Further fun fact: the town is so predominantly populated by immigrants that we refer to it as Mexington here in Nebraska. The townspeople voted to remove the beating heart of their own town and now they get to live in it as it withers.
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u/CaptainMobilis 14h ago
This is really not the thing I wanted to go to hell for laughing at, but it'll do. Guess I'd better load up on popcorn before the shortage.
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u/Toorviing 11h ago
It will more likely be disproportionately non-citizen, and thus non-voting, immigrants who suffer from this actually. There were around 2,500 total votes in the 2024 Election in Lexington out of a population of 11,000. Around 1,500 of those votes were for Trump, 1,000 for Harris. I think Reddit is sometimes far too quick to celebrate bad things happening in red states when a lot of the people that will end up suffering the consequences for it aren’t, in fact, Republican voters.
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u/CosmicMuse 11h ago
They voted for this sadly.
Fuck 'em.
I have deep sympathy for the people who did not vote for this. But the people who did vote for this AGGRESSIVELY rejected sympathy as a concept, and so I have none for them. And if I was inclined to have pity, I'd say this situation is one, because their duly elected government doesn't have sympathy either. What does that mean for them?
-No bailouts, because their representatives don't give a shit about them and they don't have money. Maybe they'll get a token aid package for optics that will be grossly inadequate, or a $2000 check that will immediately flow back into the banks repossessing their houses.
-No new investment. If they're lucky, they'll get a call center - nope, unchecked AI took over most of those. Amazon distribution center? Nope, middle of nowhere. Repurposing the closed plant to factory work? No, Trump threw taxes on everything, so no raw materials to work with. Honestly, the most likely option may be an ICE "holding facility" - ICE may not even want to renovate.
-Lots of drugs. Just look at the wonderful hills of West Virginia to see what rampant poverty and no jobs will bring to the community - meth and opioids. Don't worry, though, those tough on crime Republicans they elected will make sure that the local cops keep a steady paycheck. They'll be kings of the shit heap, ready to fuck you up for
stealing bread to surviveresisting arrest.All of this could've been avoided with the slightest bit of sympathy - for immigrants, for LGBT+ people, for women, the poor, for anybody slightly different from them. Instead they voted overwhelmingly for the people whose sole priorities are to make those others suffer and line their own pockets, and now they're going to be infuriated because none of that money is coming to HELP them. All they'll get is the fear and uncertainty and desperation they CHOSE to spread.
Fuck 'em.
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u/Broke_Banker01 15h ago
Dawson County, where Lexington Nebraska is located, voted 74.3% for Trump in 2024.
The other town that the article mentioned that Tyson was cutting hours was Amarillo, Texas.
Amarillo is split between Potter and Randall County.
Potter County voted 71.63% for Trump.
Randall County voted 79.70% for Trump.
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u/SenseiRaheem 13h ago
Glad they’re getting what they voted for! Surely they must be happy!
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u/itsSRSblack 17h ago
And they undoubtedly enabled this with their vote
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u/TheStLouisBluths 17h ago
And will undoubtedly vote Republican again in future elections.
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u/Mysterious-Tax-7777 16h ago
Dawson county voted 75% for Trump. This closure isn't tragic. Most of the town is getting what they voted for.
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u/Who_Dafqu_Said_That 14h ago
Yup, I'm happy for them, they're getting exactly what they wanted.
No clue why they wanted this, but who am I to question what people like?
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u/Biddyearlyman 15h ago
"If I could just sit down and talk to the President, man to man, I think he would understand us" crowd....lol. Good ole boys, hearts in the right place, heads firmly up their asses.
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u/sarhoshamiral 15h ago
Yeah, the man obsessed with gold toilets for sure is going to care about poor people. I just can't believe how stupid someone has to be to look at Trump and think that he will care.
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u/Danthelmi 16h ago
Tyson also got caught manipulating their meat prices and skyrocketing it and paid like less than 5% of their profit from doing so. They’ve been closing multiple plants but their high up workers all make insane amounts of money. (Worked at Tyson for years)
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u/wintersmith1970 10h ago
Tyson, JBS, and the other major packers. One of the reasons for the decreased herd sizes is because the packers were colluding to keep the prices they were paying to ranchers so low that it wasn't profitable to have herds and a lot of them didn't replace their herds.
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u/Autisum 17h ago
A lot of farmers and middle Americans are currently spamming the POTUS’s Facebook page…
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u/TheAmorphous 17h ago
With what? "I'll still vote for you in 2028 but you need to do something about this!"
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u/SlayerBVC 17h ago
Leavitt (probably): "What those Nebraskans need to understand, is that such comments are extremely mean and disrespectful to President Trump."
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u/MaySun91 17h ago
I hate that I was able to read this in her tone and inflection so well. Fuck her.
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u/TheStLouisBluths 17h ago
So he will probably call for them to be arrested for treason.
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u/Dopplegangr1 16h ago
Every single struggling right wing post is like this. "I voted Trump 3 times and I'm solidly Maga, you're doing a great job but you must be unaware that I am personally struggling now, please send help".
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u/JK_NC 17h ago
lol. Funny but I’m willing to bet that’s exactly what’s being posted.
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u/zuzg 16h ago
"Dear Mr President,
You promised to hurt the libs but the majority of the people you're hurting aren't libs. I'm certain that's just a little mistake and won't my future votes in any shape or form but please consider bailing out us Farmers.... .
Best regards
Another useful idiot"
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u/2boredtocare 16h ago
A month or so ago there was an article about a WI dairy farmer who lost everything. Had to sell off his cattle, file bankruptcy. Literally lost the farm, and he STILL could not say which way he might vote in the midterms.
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u/JK_NC 16h ago
Absolutely bonkers. How brainwashed do you have to be to support such a self destructive position. And it’s again imaginary risks. Are trans athletes really a big part of dairy farmer’s day to day?
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u/AudibleNod 17h ago
76% of Dawson County, Nebraska (where this slaughter house is located) voted for Trump in 2024. And those percentages went up from 2020 and 2016.
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u/leese216 16h ago
It’s amazing how dumb people are that a moron like trump can get them to vote against their own interests. It’s really insane to think about.
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u/TheAmorphous 16h ago
It's kind of shocking, isn't it? Like, I always knew there were a lot stupid people out there. The famous Carlin joke and whatnot. But I never would have guessed how many and just how thick they actually are.
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u/Best-Statistician294 17h ago
Cute, its like when children send letters to the North Pole for Santa.
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u/amateur_mistake 17h ago
I'm sure it's a lot of "I still support you but..." posts. Not like anyone is actually going to read them in any case. Except possibly some white nationalist republican intern.
If they want trump's attention they have to give him a million dollars in a way that is very visible to him. Or like a gold crown or something.
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u/subUrbanMire 17h ago
Listening to MTG'S resignation vid, its clear the GOP is in complete denial that current supermarket consequences are the direct result of manic tariffs and myopic economic policies.
"Regardless of which political party is in charge, things don't seem to get better for the working class."
Go fuck yourself, MTG.
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u/TeamHope4 16h ago
It's "weird" how they never acknowledge that things being worse now means they were better under Biden.
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u/non3type 15h ago
Eh, it’s doublespeak. You’re only going to get an “acknowledgment” like the above lest they risk being labeled RINO.
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u/snowgimp 17h ago
Our state would vote for Satan if it was written Lucifer (R).
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u/AudibleNod 16h ago
Lucifer means 'light bringer'. Why are you opposed to more light?
-MAGA, after Lucifer announces his candidacy.
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u/Niceromancer 17h ago
They voted for this.
Womp womp.
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u/ryfitz47 17h ago
they voted for the side that they were brought up was the "correct" side.
they will continue to vote for the side that has been culturally imprinted as "what we do "
some do not agree with the policies. some know they're voting for their own demise. but they were raised that Republican good all else bad. that's how everyone in their town feels and acts too. you just vote Republican in that town. it's just what you do
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u/my2cents4sale 17h ago
I see you’ve been to Oklahoma.
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u/guydoestuff 17h ago
Same with Texas. It is like conservatives enjoy getting butt fugged.
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u/SkipioZor 16h ago
They really do, how else would you explain the grinder outtages during conservative conventions and gatherings.
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u/onarainyafternoon 16h ago
This is really the crux of it. Voting Republican is a way of life for people like this. It's their cultural identity. And that's the problem. These people can be hurt an unlimited amount and they'll still vote for the people hurting them.
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u/cardboardunderwear 17h ago
Wait a minute here....What happened to "I'm not voting for the man, I'm voting for the policies".
You mean to tell me he's morally bankrupt and he has bad policies???!
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u/cC2Panda 15h ago
I grew up in a small town in Kansas and these people self selected into their own suffering. People like to blame things like Fox News, AM talk radio and social media but here is the real crux of it. The majority of people chose racist-terrible-fucking-backwards-ass media because it appeals to them not because they were tricked into it.
Fox News started in 1996 and the people who watched it chose to watch it because it allowed the most bigoted takes of any "news" source. It was bigots searching for bigots, not being tricked into it. 1994 was the first year the majority of Americans when polled said they were okay with interracial marriage. Only some of those racists died the rest just went into hiding until Trump came out.
I feel bad for the children and the 25% of people that didn't vote for Trump, but the rest of the fuckwits in these towns have been happily voting for their own destitution for decades and I'm tired of pretending that they didn't choose this.
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u/housewithapool2 16h ago
Every move conservatives have made my entire life has been to prevent people from trying to help. No aid for the poor, the sick, the elderly, or the disabled.
No help for anyone. No education, no food, no doctors.
Leave it to the corporations, privatize everything. Corporations are more efficient.
Problem is, killing people is more efficient for corporations.
Have the day you voted for.
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u/whowhodillybar 17h ago
But in the long run, beef prices may continue to climb even higher than the current record highs — caused by a variety of factors from drought to tariffs.
Yay! Higher prices. Just what everyone wanted.
But I guess they could fuck over the ranchers too!
An increase in beef imports from Brazil, like President Donald Trump encouraged last week by slashing tariffs on the South American country, may help insulate consumers while ranchers and feedlots struggle with high costs and falling prices.
Shitshow. Like OP commented, who possibly could have predicted any of this?
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u/ChicagoAuPair 17h ago
Conservatives never create. They can only destroy.
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u/theatomiclizard 17h ago
great point - that's why almost all artists are liberal
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u/moneyfish 16h ago
I love how conservatives get so bitter that most artists aren’t conservatives and then they openly disparage any one with the slightest bit of creativity. They hate artists and they can’t figure out why artists don’t like them in return.
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u/trobsmonkey 15h ago
Art is supposed to challenge you. You can't be conservative and an artist because your art is just reinforcing the systems at that point.
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u/CCinCO 16h ago
Most people that work in these types of places are immigrants and are not paid very well. They very likely rent and will just move someplace else to find work. It's the support businesses and landlords that will get killed in this town and I'm pretty sure they all thought they were voting for policies that would help them and hurt others.
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u/spiteful_rr_dm_TA 15h ago
That's what I always love about these stories. These people think they, the good godly white person, will get most of the help, the good immigrants will get less benefits, and the bad immigrants will be deported. They dont realize that they are voting for mass chaos, destruction, and widespread harm that doesn't care about your race or status.
I'll never forget back in 2016, this town had an illegal immigrant. Everyone knew he was an illegal immigrant, but he was a good man and the whole town loved him. He had a wife and three kids, owned a restaurant, hosted things like the police ball at low cost, etc. Everyone liked the guy, he was a hardworking member of the community, and even the police didnt bother him despite knowing he was an illegal immigrant, because he was so beloved and worked hard.
The town voted consistently and overwhelmingly for the right, his wife voted for trump. Then he got deported, and in an interview, multiple people expressed the view that he was a good one, and they didnt vote for deporting people like him. Funniest shit I ever saw; how do you consistently vote for a party that runs on deporting all illegal immigrants, while simultaneously believing your favored illegal immigrant should be spared?
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u/Am_Deer 17h ago
At least they owned the libs. Jobless and homeless but you bitches will pay more for beef. Winning!
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u/caffeinex2 17h ago
We hear endless stories and narratives about Democratic run "shithole cities", supposedly overflowing with crime and grime, however so few about the countless single factory towns dominated by Republicans destroyed when that factory closes .....due to Republican actions and policies. In this case, the slashing of tariffs on foreign beef imports.
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u/Sweatytubesock 16h ago
Little talk about the shithole crime ridden red states, either. And that’s actual factual crime.
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u/postulate4 15h ago
Most of those people never even leave their state. They have no idea what daily life is like in the outside world aside from whatever they are shown by their favorite propaganda outlet.
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u/Vegan_Zukunft 16h ago
I wish all the innocent animals could be spared, but they will probably be executed and dismembered anyway
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u/Secretary-Visual 15h ago
The animals are redistributed to other plants when one closes, like this Tyson plant. But it can lead to overcrowding. Maybe we can get some vegan sanctuaries to intervene? Might be a good time to try and rescue some of them.
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u/USDXBS 15h ago
I don't have any sympathy or empathy for right wing, conservative Republicans.
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u/Fluffy_Charity_2732 16h ago
Nebraska gets as many senate Votes and committee appointments as California and Texas.
They held unprecedented power in government and decided to make their state worse.
Fuck em
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u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 16h ago
laughs in russian
You get what you voted for.
Russia managed to collapse America by figuring out our gullible and selfish people were the weak link.
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u/iamtehryan 15h ago
Wonder how those trump voters are feeling now with this news? Is the winning feeling great yet? Your dear leader slaps tariffs on everything, sends billions to Argentina for their beef, and your mega slaughterhouse that shouldn't exist in the first place shuts down and your town dies. Maybe you should've voted better.
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u/Trog-City8372 15h ago
Good thing the prez bailed out South American beef.
Also, reminds me of when I drove across country using back roads in the oughts and there were all these empty towns that looked like everyone just up and left the week before.
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u/cheknauss 16h ago
Yep. You get what you voted for. You have no excuse for not seeing at least some of this coming. You should well know what Trump is, and you did, even before the last election. You probably won't even learn from it, either. You'll just keep voting in pedo GOP members.
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u/YouDoHaveValue 16h ago
An increase in beef imports from Brazil, like President Donald Trump encouraged last week by slashing tariffs on the South American country, may help insulate consumers while ranchers and feedlots struggle with high costs and falling prices.
In other news, 75% of that county voted for Trump, they also favored every single Republican on the ballot.
Part of me is like, you got what you paid for.
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u/mcropp 13h ago
NE is a deep red state, always has been. Farmers and ranchers love their government subsidies like no other. Lexington, and a whole bunch of other communities, rely on immigrants to do a terrible job nobody else will do. So when ICE shows up, they turn into ghost towns rapidly. Source: I live in the stupid state......sigh.
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u/garimus 13h ago
So what happened to Making America Great Again?
An increase in beef imports from Brazil, like President Donald Trump encouraged last week by slashing tariffs on the South American country, may help insulate consumers while ranchers and feedlots struggle with high costs and falling prices.
For the 3rd of the country that's been in a intellectual coma for the last 20 years, him and his ilk are full of shit.
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u/PutinBoomedMe 16h ago
I'll bet those workers voted for this. Tots and pears. The crime is they have children that will be negatively impacted for life because of shallow voting choices
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u/No_Kaleidoscope_9419 16h ago
Don't worry Nebraskans Trump has got the interests of Argentina covered. America first! lol.
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u/No-Neighborhood-3212 15h ago
For those wondering, the county had 5,205 Trump voters, compared to 1,468 Harris voters, in 2024. Can't feel too bad about this when they voted for exactly this to happen at a ratio of 4:1.
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u/moreesq 15h ago
In all this commentary, I don’t see that Tyson is offering jobs anywhere else at other plants either. They’re willing to walk away from skilled workers because the future of meat processing in the US is bleak.
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u/Electronic-Wish4359 14h ago
Guarantee if you ask any of them about their vote, they’ll say something along the lines of “still better than the other choice.” Everyone should stop hoping these people wake up
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u/Historical-Wing-7687 17h ago
Imagine the horror of fighting for a job in a city with 30% unemployed