Pork producers are understandably concerned about the import tariffs on pork imposed by China and Mexico. But livestock economist Steve Meyer of Kerns and Associates says it’s not the “Armageddon” scenario some have portrayed it to be.
“We don’t think the Chinese thing is still a very big deal—and the real reason is that we weren’t going to be doing a lot of business with them anyway,” Meyer says. “They’ve got a lot of pigs, their prices are low, and we just don’t think there’s going to be anything there.”
Likewise for the Mexican tariffs, he says.
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