Category: Cattle Buisness
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Talking Out His ***
R-Calf's new leader needs to take a long walk off a short pier.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?display=rednews/2006/01/22/build/state/22-rcalf-group.inc">R-CALF's new leader wants to expand group</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The new leader of R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America wants to change perceptions of the group that some in the cattle industry describe as protectionist or out of the mainstream, because of…
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Get a Clue, Burns
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=17018">Sen. Burns: <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> Must Better Regulate Packers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>U.S. Senator Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) expressed his concern today over a report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (<acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat…
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The USDA is Out of Control
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2006/01/19/build/nation/75-usda-audit.inc"><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> faked anti-competition investigations, audit says</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The Agriculture Department has pretended to investigate anti-competitive behavior among stockyards and meat companies since 1999, but in hundreds of cases it hasn't actually filed complaints, says an audit released Wednesday.<br />n<br />nSenior…
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Selling Cattle
<a href="http://news.monstersandcritics.com/business/article_1076813.php/Oklahoma_beef_producers_selling_early">Oklahoma beef producers selling early</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Oklahoma wildfires are driving beef producers to auction animals at a younger age to avoid the economic consequences of lost pasturage.<br />n<br />nDry wheat pastures plus burned stockpiles of grass are a costly burden to producers, leading many to sell their cattle months earlier than normal, the Daily…
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Yet Another Country Opens
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2006/01/14/build/world/70-beef-imports.inc">South Korea OKs some U.S. beef imports</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>South Korea and the United States agreed Friday on partially ending a two-year import ban on American beef triggered by mad cow disease, the South Korean government said.<br />n<br />nSouth Korea shut its doors to U.S. beef imports in December 2003 after the first U.S. case…
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Simply Criminal
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2006/01/11/build/business/45-canada-meat.inc">Report: Canadian meat imports continued despite bad inspections</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Two years ago, U.S. food safety officials warned that Canadian meat and poultry inspections were lacking, yet the Agriculture Department refused to stop the flow of imports from Canada, a department investigation found.</blockquote><br />n<br />nSo, Canadian meat processors don't meet the standards as required yet…
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This Explains Things
The Montana Stockgrowers, a branch of the National Cattlmans Beef Association (<acronym title="National Cattlemans Beef Association, shills for the big meat packers">NCBA</acronym>) which is lead by the meat packers and big feeders and not the cattle prodsucers, keeps wondering why they are losing members. Look at <a href="http://www.montanacattlemen.org/mca_passes_resolutions.htm">this list of issues</a> the Montana Cattlemans Association,…
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Reporting, I Guess
I see over at New West they are "reporting", I use that term loosely here, that Idaho has <a href="http://www.newwest.net/index.php/main/article/5160/">lost its brucellosis free status</a>. This peaked my interest as stories that involve cattle do so I looked into it. The "reporter", Bill Schneider, uses as source material for this report a website called <a href="http://www.forwolves.org/ralph/bisonrpt.html">Ralph…
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Opening Up
I see <a href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=70998">Thailand is lifting its import ban on US beef</a>. I don't know how big of market that is for US beef but every little bit helps.<br />n<br />n<b>Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment. Euripides</b>
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Producers Problems
Everybody knows my position on the big meat packers and Texas cattle feeders and how these big guys influence the cattle business. Over at <a href="http://northviewdiary.blogspot.com/"> Northview Diary</a> I found the Dairy producers Take on <a href="http://northviewdiary.blogspot.com/2006/01/on-this-second-day-of-2006-it-is-back.html">big producers</a> and the effect on them.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>However, the free and easy import of Canadian cows is rough…