President Donald Trump issued a presidential proclamation Wednesday allowing beef imports to rise by 300,000 metric tons—more than 660 million pounds—over a 90-day period, a step framed as temporary tariff relief to ease elevated ground-beef costs while U.S. cattle inventories sit at a 75-year low. American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall said the move dimmed one of the few bright spots in U.S. agriculture, calling the timing a gut punch to ranchers selling cattle into a market in sharp decline and urging the president to reverse the decision. Duvall argued that assurances the added imports would not disrupt orderly marketing fall flat under current conditions, warned that a strong domestic food supply is easy to take for granted until it is gone, and separately urged the administration not to alter the renewable fuel standard in ways that would further pressure corn, soybean, and other crop producers. The plan has already drawn pushback from ranchers and Republican senators who say temporary import relief will not rebuild the herd and may not lower retail prices, even as USDA projects record beef imports alongside still-tight domestic production.