WASHINGTON — Early this week President Donald Trump anything announcement that he is looking to allow four times the normal quota of American purchases of Argentine beef as part of an effort to lower food prices.

The effort triggered backlash from American ranchers.

“Our cow calf producers, our ranchers are very upset with the notion that we maybe opening up or Argentinian beef to the US market,” Republican Senator Steve Daines of Montana said in a phone call with NonStop Local’s Bradley Warren. “We have been communicating their concerns directly to the president.”

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association said the president was undercutting American cattle producers.

Online and in press releases the association said the president’s move is “misguided” and that “efforts to manipulate m

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