Category: Cattle Buisness
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Empty Threat
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=93986" >S. Korea Threatens To Ban U.S. Beef Again</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>South Korean legislators talked tough on Wednesday, warning they might reinstate a ban on U.S. beef imports if Washington continues to demand that Seoul ease its quarantine inspection standards.<br />n<br />n“The U.S. should be aware that if the U.S. Congress continues to press with…
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Cattle Herd Contraction
<a href="http://www.agriculture.com/ag/futuresource/FutureSourceStoryIndex.jhtml?storyId=76600218" >DJ OUTLOOK 07: US Cattle Herd To Be Thinner In New Yr</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The nation's beef cattle herd, both in number and by<br />nweight, will be thinner in 2007, say some analysts, with high corn prices seen<br />nas a major deterrent to expansion.<br />n<br />n Analysts used current 2007 corn futures values in…
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The Gods Are Smiling
You reap what you sow and the Gods smile about it.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.agweb.com/get_article.aspx?pageid=133480&src=gennews" >Beef Prices In South Korea World’s Highest</a><br />n<br />nServes the bastards right for not letting US beef into their country. Maybe once the consumers figuyre this out they will revolt and overthrow their oppressive government.<br />n<br />n<strong>Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance –…
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Rumbles
<a href="http://www.ilfb.org/viewdocument.asp?did=12746&r=0.6349451" >Japanese restaurants want more U.S. beef</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Japanese restaurants are feeling a serious supply crunch, according to reports from the Associated Press. The restaurants are set to urge the government to ease restriction on U.S. beef imports, officials said Tuesday.<br />n<br />nAlthough Tokyo eased a 2 � year blanket ban on U.S. beef…
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Expensive Burger
I occasionally read stories about expensive hamburgers and they astound me. Here's another one.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Jakarta-hotel-puts-110-burger-on-menu/2006/12/19/1166290520313.html" >Jakarta hotel puts $110 burger on menu</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A hotel in Indonesia is dishing out a hamburger that costs more than twice the monthly minimum wage in some parts of the country.<br />n<br />nThe $US110 ($A141.27) hamburger offered…
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Resonable Thoughts
I've been trying to get a handle on what is going to happen to cattle prices with the Ethanol boom driving corn prices so high. Part of <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/12/14/news/local/30-stockgrowers.txt">this story</a> finally clued me in to the best explanation I've seen.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>What might be really ridiculous is corn going to $4 a bushel.<br />n<br />nMichael…
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Troublesome
<a href="http://www.hutchnews.com/news/regional/stories/cattlemeds121206.shtml" >Antibiotics in cattle a concern for consumers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote> Just as in humans, the use of antibiotics quickly can help a sick cow return to the pink of health.<br />n<br />nBut in the cattle industry, that isn't the only use of antibiotics.<br />n<br />nSince the 1950s, it's been common to give so-called "sub-therapeutic"…
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What A Hoot
<a href="http://www.theprairiestar.com/articles/2006/12/11/ag_news/updates/update37.txt" >Study shows preconditioning beef calves pays</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Findings from an 11-year study published on Nov. 1 in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA) show producers who precondition beef calves at the ranch of origin consistently receive more per hundredweight for their calves than producers who do not precondition.<br />n<br />nIn…