\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t United States Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollings downplayed the possibility of importing more beef from Argentina on Tuesday. Although she acknowledged that President Donald Trump is \u201cin discussions with Argentina,\u201d she said that any purchases would \u201cnot be much\u201d due to a \u201cfoot and mouth disease issue\u201d allegedly affecting Argentine beef.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cArgentina is facing a foot and mouth disease issue. We at USDA have to ensure our livestock industry is secure,\u201d Rollins said in an interview with CNBC. Local experts, however, refuted her claims, saying that Argentina has been free of that disease for 25 years.<\/p>\n
Foot and mouth disease is \u201ca severe, highly contagious viral disease of livestock\u201d that causes fever and blister-like sores in cattle and other animals, according to the World Organisation for Animal Health. It cannot be transmitted to humans but can cause severe production losses.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Argentina has been free of foot and mouth disease since 2000, after an intense vaccination campaign to eliminate it from the local livestock production. In May, the World Organisation for Animal Health ratified Argentina\u2019s status as a country free of this disease. In the Patagonia region, vaccination is no longer necessary.<\/p>\n
In September, the Argentine government decided to cut down on vaccination against foot and mouth disease in calves and partially in adult animals starting in 2026, saving farmers US$25 million.<\/p>\n
Nicol\u00e1s Pino, head of top-agriculture chamber Argentine Rural Society, said in an interview with Radio Mitre on Wednesday that Rollins is \u201clikely misinformed\u201d in response to her statements about foot and mouth disease.<\/p>\n
In her CNBC interview, Rollins said that she is working on a program called \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d with a focus on proteins such as beef, poultry, and pork. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to make sure we\u2019ve got production to be able to align with that.\u201d
\nRollins\u2019 comments come on the heels of several announcements of an economic bailout from President Donald Trump for his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei. <\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury confirmed that a currency swap agreement for US$20 billion had been signed, adding up to a standby credit line and an additional US$20 billion private fund facility, both of which are yet to be confirmed and detailed. The U.S. government also purchased Argentine pesos with the goal of strengthening the local currency and lowering the skyrocketing price of the dollar ahead of the October 26 midterm elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
United States Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollings downplayed the possibility of importing more beef from Argentina on Tuesday. Although she acknowledged that President Donald Trump is \u201cin discussions with Argentina,\u201d she said that any purchases would \u201cnot be much\u201d due to a \u201cfoot and mouth disease issue\u201d allegedly affecting Argentine beef.\u00a0 \u201cArgentina is facing a foot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1202,60,81,61,306],"tags":[1201,88,596,89,904],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-argentine-beef","category-donald-trump","category-international-relations","category-javier-milei","category-world","tag-argentine-beef","tag-donald-trump","tag-international-relations","tag-javier-milei","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}