Category: japan
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Progress
It looks like the beef industry might be making progress in Japan. The Japanese government might be thinking about <a href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070805a3.html">upping the age limit for imported beef</a> from 20 month to the more generally accepted 30 month age limit. There is still one little hurdle to go through, the Food Safety Commission, and there is…
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Stopped Yet Again
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SKOREA_US_BEEF?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >South Korea suspends US beef imports</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>South Korea has effectively suspended U.S. beef imports over mad cow concerns after a recent shipment was found to have contained banned parts, a news report said Thursday.</blockquote><br />n<br />nThat's about all the information that's in the story. I wish the meat packers would pay a…
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US Beef Makes Strides
<a href="http://www.chinapost.com.tw/headlines/47189.htm" >Major Japanese supermarket chain puts US beef back on its shelves</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Major Japanese supermarket chain Ito-Yokado Co. brought American beef back to its shelves Friday, about 3 1/2 years after sales were halted in the wake of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease, a parent company spokesman said.<br />n<br />nU.S.…
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Step Forward
Beef trade with Japan has taken a <a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=2692EC9E-D863-3BFE-F4544C0BDA405F1C">big step forward</a>. They have given 35 beef plants a clean bill of health which will stop 100% inspections of imports in Japan and they will scale back to only random checks. This is a good step, now to work on getting them to accept something other…
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Controlled Risk
I missed this with being so busy and the Brucellosis problem in Montana, but the <a href="http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2007-05-22T193630Z_01_N22412272_RTRIDST_0_CANADA-USA-CANADA-BEEF-COL.XML">US received a "controlled risk" status</a> for <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). This is really good news. Under this status age restrictions for beef are no longer valid and any country who…
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Willing
I see that <a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=682D236E-DC90-7633-9DC0437FCCCD3387">South Korean consumers are willing to buy US Beef</a>. It's just the politicians are trying to keep it from happening. I notice when US beef was offered in Japan the consumer was willing to buy it to. The politicians from these countries are reading their consumers wrong and maybe should open…
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Controlled-Risk
I see that the US and Canada might get <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aUf0L2lZAzfM&refer=canada">`Controlled-Risk' Status for <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym></a>. The article claims this status might help us get some of our lost export markets back. I'm not so sure. <a href="http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/Engnews/20070313/650000000020070313180856E6.html">South Korea has indicated</a> that no mater what status we get from OIE, they are going to…
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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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Down Under
Just a few different items from Australia that have caught my eye.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20596614-1702,00.html" >Drought hitting livestock prices</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>LIVESTOCK prices across NSW are in freefall, with farmers selling off record numbers of sheep and cattle as the drought worsens.<br />n<br />nMeat processors say they cannot take any more livestock, and producers say they…
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US Beef Scarce
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=70747" >Scarcity Of Smaller Cattle, High Market Prices Suppressing Beef Sales In Japan</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>U.S. beef is selling for almost as much as domestic Wagyu beef in Japan, and the "paucity" of cattle under 20 months of age has combined with high prices to suppress sales of U.S. beef in Japan, according to Phil…