Father, Husband, Rancher, Former Chairman of the UTGOP 🇺🇸The Carson Jorgensen Podcast🇺🇸
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Carson Jorgensen retweeted
DC needs to stop with the presumption that America's farmers and ranchers should be in unfettered price competition with the rest of the planet for their own home market 👇
6 years ago, a group of sheep producers reached out after the closing of a major US packing plant. At that time I sent a letter to former Vice President Mike Pence outlining the situation and asking for intervention. Cheap meat from other countries caused the lost revenue...in turn the shuttering of the plant.
3 years ago, again a group of us producers got together to make another run at this cheap imported meat. Hundreds of calls and thousands of hours later.... Yesterday was a culmination of the last 6 years.
We spent all day in a hearing room at the International Trade Commission in Washington DC. Making our arguments. 13 countries plus the EU filed to oppose the US Sheep Producers in our plea to slow the flow of this cheap product that is damaging our food supply.
Sheep ranchers from across the country on one side of the room.... and dozens of high priced attorneys, forign officials, Ivy league economists and corporate CEOs on the other.....
In 1999, 30% of the lamb in the US came from imports. Today, 79% of the lamb consumed in the US comes from imports.
The argument was injury.... how much forign pressure on a market constitutes injury to an industry. 20%, 30%, 50%, 79%..... When does injury begin.
I will say the case went well we believe.... but that said. I had a stunning realization as we say there....
US farmers and Ranchers.... sitting in a room.... full of folks from other countries.... arguing over who gets access to OUR own market first! For far too long our trade policy has been.... make sure Americans get "a fair shake" at their own market. Instead of America First and forign imports can fill whats left. This is the trade policy we want to see and the only safe future for our country. A country that canot feed itself, can't stay a sovereign nation. Food security is national security and we had better start giving it the attention it deserves.
6 years ago, a group of sheep producers reached out after the closing of a major US packing plant. At that time I sent a letter to former Vice President Mike Pence outlining the situation and asking for intervention. Cheap meat from other countries caused the lost revenue...in turn the shuttering of the plant.
3 years ago, again a group of us producers got together to make another run at this cheap imported meat. Hundreds of calls and thousands of hours later.... Yesterday was a culmination of the last 6 years.
We spent all day in a hearing room at the International Trade Commission in Washington DC. Making our arguments. 13 countries plus the EU filed to oppose the US Sheep Producers in our plea to slow the flow of this cheap product that is damaging our food supply.
Sheep ranchers from across the country on one side of the room.... and dozens of high priced attorneys, forign officials, Ivy league economists and corporate CEOs on the other.....
In 1999, 30% of the lamb in the US came from imports. Today, 79% of the lamb consumed in the US comes from imports.
The argument was injury.... how much forign pressure on a market constitutes injury to an industry. 20%, 30%, 50%, 79%..... When does injury begin.
I will say the case went well we believe.... but that said. I had a stunning realization as we say there....
US farmers and Ranchers.... sitting in a room.... full of folks from other countries.... arguing over who gets access to OUR own market first! For far too long our trade policy has been.... make sure Americans get "a fair shake" at their own market. Instead of America First and forign imports can fill whats left. This is the trade policy we want to see and the only safe future for our country. A country that canot feed itself, can't stay a sovereign nation. Food security is national security and we had better start giving it the attention it deserves.
Carson Jorgensen retweeted
American sheep producers raise some of the highest-quality lamb and wool in the world. They deserve a FAIR SHOT at competing right here at home. 🐑🇺🇸
Since 2021, lamb meat imports have surged nearly 45%, now accounting for 70% of the US market.
American sheep producers should not be pushed out of their own market by foreign competition.
@USDA is FIGHTING for our sheep producers, defending American agriculture, and standing up for the family farms and ranches that keep rural America strong.
MORE to come on this — stay tuned.
Carson Jorgensen retweeted
This is the type of petty that only an extremely well-spoken gay man can pull off.
Outside of the US military, he’s arguably America’s greatest weapon.
Carson Jorgensen retweeted
Diesel exhaust fluid mandates are destroying equipment truckers, ranchers, and small businesses rely on to maintain our way of life.
I have worked with @epaleezeldin since the beginning of this administration to roll back these mandates of forced scarcity once and for all.
Carson Jorgensen retweeted
Tried to pass the Voter ID component of the SAVE America Act today.
Democrats objected—not on the merits of the bill, but because “we’re too close to the election,” and then tried to change the subject to tariffs.
It’s terrifying that Senate Dems are terrified by Voter ID.
Carson Jorgensen retweeted
For the uninitiated,
Mormon Women for Ethical Government has absolutely nothing to do with the church.
They wear our religion, like a skin suit to advance far left agendas.
Of course she thinks everyone to the right of her is a Nazi.
BREAKING: Mormon Women for Ethical Government co-founder and speaker Melissa Dalton-Bradford paints Republicans as fascist authoritarians and draws N*zi comparisons in lecture at Southern Utah University. | By @TMoss2123
Carson Jorgensen retweeted
I cannot believe this is even on the table.
Indefensible.
If these two get expelled by the University of Utah, I’ll hire both of them—and then help them find schools where they can complete their degrees without fear of political persecution.
Hmm... seeing tons of folks who hate DATA CENTERs that sure like how they would have looked in the 80's.....
#DataCenters
70 years of bad trade policy... correcting it starts somewhere. Thank you @USTradeRep for taking this seriously...
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Carson Jorgensen retweeted
🚨 WOW! Donald Trump reveals his new executive order will allow small and medium ranchers to TOTALLY IGNORE the big meatpackers, and sell direct to consumer — 47 is expecting major blowback from the mega corporations
"Small and medium sized and large ranchers can sell their products DIRECT TO CONSUMER, they don't have to go through the Big Four processors and middlemen. They're NOT gonna be happy when they hear this! Will you people protect me?!" 😂
Trump made the RIGHT MOVE.
Carson Jorgensen retweeted
.@POTUS tells me he will look into SLASHING harmful regulations in the beef industry that lead to high prices. I know firsthand how rigged the system is against independent American farmers. Four massive corporations control almost the entire meat processing industry. If President Trump can cut these regulations, it would be a HUGE WIN. He tells me:
"I will look at that today. I've been hearing about this problem for 20 years... This could be a very good call for ranchers and farmers. No... for the country"
Carson Jorgensen retweeted
If we were to put Flock cameras outside of every polling location & drop box in Milwaukee, Philadelphia, & Pittsburgh,
democrats would unite against them.
Carson Jorgensen retweeted
Record profits while ranchers went under. Now plant closures using the shortage those same profits helped create.
Tyson, JBS, Cargill cut 14-16K head/day. 18-20% of fed cattle kill gone in under a year.
106,000 operations gone. Over $350M in antitrust settlements paid.
Carson Jorgensen retweeted
I was on a sheep producer zoom call the other evening with less than 100 people. I was a small to very small producer in the group. Easily 20+ percent of US sheep industry on the call.
Carson Jorgensen retweeted
📢CALLING ALL SHEEP PRODUCERS
The U.S. International Trade Commission investigation into whether increased imports of lamb meat are a substantial cause of serious injury to our domestic sheep industry is underway and moving on a fast track.
We now need as many U.S. sheep producers as possible, regardless of the size of your flocks, to join with us in this investigation under the Protect American Lamb umbrella.
Numbers matter in this effort, and this is our opportunity to obtain meaningful relief from the excessive imports that have decimated our domestic sheep industry.
By Sunday night, Aug. 9, please complete the Membership Authorization and Designation of Representative form to join Protect American Lamb.
There is no cost to join, and @Charles_Benoit, trade counsel for @cpa_tradereform, will represent all sheep producers who join Protect American Lamb to prove our case at no cost.
🐑 Join here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Help us spread the word! Share this with your neighbors, friends, family and every sheep producer you know. We need as many U.S. sheep producers as possible to join us in this effort.
With your help, we can win this! Message us with any questions.
@CarsonJorg
