James Lankford: “We already buy some beef from Argentina. It's mostly ground…”

“The president worked very hard to be able to open up Australia and Japan and other places to increase American beef going in there, because the world wants American beef. We already buy some beef from Argentina. It's mostly ground beef that we get from them. Not dismissing Argentina, but Argentine beef is not going to solve all the price issues that we've got here, and they definitely won't meet the quality issues that we have for American beef.” (02:54–02:59)

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