>>21527488
Wrong. The first exporter in the world is Brazil. They specialize on cheap cuts. America gets its cheaper beef from Brazil. This allows American farmers to focus part of their production on USDA prime for export to places like the EU or Japan. So it's capitalism, win-win.

Except if this cycle is suddenly broken, the USDA prime cannot be turned to cheap beef overnight to fill the gap. There are different breeds of cows and take a long time to breed, grow, fatten, etc. There is no immediate source of cheap beef aside from Brazil (the other large exporters tend to fetch higher prices, and they have their own markets), so there's not enough to fill the gap.

So when that happens... prices rise...