This week when announcing the USDA’s Coronavirus Food Assistance Program details, President Trump noted that when forging trade agreements, the U.S. should ban imports of cattle from other countries. R-CALF Regional Director and South Dakota Cattle Producer Brett Kenzy says his group does not want cattle imports banned.

He says however it’s positive the President is beginning to see the pressures U.S. cattle producers are under and perhaps now there will be something done to help them.

Kenzy says something needs to be done to fix the cattle markets given the backlog of animals that haven’t been processed and to deal with the flood of cattle imports occurring.

Kenzy says what would really help would be to get Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling reinstated.