Beef Markets

Now this is a real interesting development. <br />n<a href="http://www.asahi.com/english/business/TKY200407170161.html"> <br />n Japan: No <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> test for young cattle </a><br />n<br />nA government advisory panel has issued a report that indicates that young cattle in Japan should be exempt from <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> testing since "the risk that the substance that causes <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> to infect people with new-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease will not increase.''<br />n<br />nThe US has held this position all along and if the Japanese Government goes along with this maybe we, US cattle producers, can open up our export markets to Japan again. I sure hope so. The signs are looking good.<br />n<br />n<b>Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. V&Atilde;&iexcl;clav Havel</b>