Agriculture is a cycle and as produce growers, ranchers,
feed lots and processors consider their planning for the next round in the cycle one of the key factors is the availability, or lack of, labor to do the work. There is nobody in their right mind who is going to incur the expense to plant acreage that you know you don't have the labor to harvest. Nobody is going to call for calves in order to begin the cycle toward feeder cattle if the consumer market is rejecting beef because of high prices and you have lost a significant percentage of your trained labor force. Even if the market shifts suddenly you can't just have a boom in available calves. Momma cow still needs her normal gestation period.
So the disruption to the planning process, which did have fairly good predictability, because of suddenly putting a huge dent in the labor component is something we will see now in the coming cycles in ag. We've already seen it in harvest for this cycle. Your average MAGA loon isn't coming forward off the bar stool or couch to go pick crops or learn how to use a boning knife on the conveyor at the meat packing company.
The reality of the elites is that the price of meat doesn't bother them from an affordability standpoint. But Like King Louis found out the reality lived by the rank and file can become something you ignore at your own peril. Torches and pitchforks at the door of the castle don't go away just because you wear fine lace. But in the case of grifters who create chaos in order to extort situations for their own, and their friends, benefit they figure they will create the short term chaos and reap their take and then move on. Telling lies to everyone along the way is a key component of the con game and in the current case the lies are constant meaning the con game is as well.
But will ag people wake up and really turn away from this or will they fall for being bought off by a temporary check? Are a significant number of the people who voted for the GQP finally going to realize the con of the GQP? Will they keep killing their wallet in exchange for culture war issues? Are they willing to go broke in exchange for "owning the libs" etc.? Time will tell. Maybe the elections this month give us hope that some people are waking up.