President Donald Trump is moving to give ranchers a new way around the powerful meatpacking companies that stand between their cattle and the grocery-store shelf, following backlash in farm country over his decision to allow more foreign beef imports.Trump said Friday that he was authorizing legal documents to be drafted to give farmers and ranchers "the right to process their own food," casting the move as an effort to break what he called a "nasty monopoly" in the meat industry.The announcement came after cattle producers and some Republicans pushed back on Trump’s plan to temporarily allow...
Trump goes after the companies ranchers blame for the beef price squeeze
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