Category: markets
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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…
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Beef Demand Weaking
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=69504" >In The Cattle Markets: Declining Domestic Demand for Beef</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>What do recent beef demand index calculations reveal? Unfortunately, it’s not encouraging. After strengthening sharply during 2004, demand for Choice retail beef showed signs of softening during the first half of 2005, but the year-to-year declines were negligible. During the last half of…
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Competition
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=68223" >Australian Beef Producers Dread U.S. Re-entry Into Korea</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Australian beef industry analyst Peter Weeks of Meat and Livestock Australia predicts that Australia's beef producers will lose 30 percent of their market in South Korea when the United States resumes beef shipments in October.<br />n<br />n"We are looking at a 30 percent fall…
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Good News For Beef
What's the good news? US beef tastes great.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.drovers.com/news_editorial.asp?pgID=675&ed_id=3813" >Japanese Consumers Pick U.S. Beef Above The Rest </a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>When given the choice of American, Japanese and Australian beef, consumers at a Tokyo beef event Sunday chose the U.S. variety.<br />n<br />nThe event was held at Shinjuku station, the busiest train station in…
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Good News
<a href="http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/feeds/ap/2006/09/07/ap3001799.html" >South Korea to Resume U.S. Beef Imports</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>South Korea on Friday approved resuming imports of U.S. beef after repeated delays in implementing an earlier decision to lift a 2003 ban imposed because of mad cow fears.<br />n<br />nSouth Korea's Agriculture Ministry said 36 U.S. slaughterhouses designated to handle meat for export to…
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Progress
<a href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20060827a1.html" >Barbecue chain to serve U.S. beef</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A restaurant chain plans to resume serving U.S. beef at dozens of its branches nationwide, company officials said Saturday.<br />n<br />nZenshoku, based in Osaka Prefecture, plans to offer U.S. beef at the company's 57 Korean barbecue restaurants across Japan soon, the company said.<br />n<br />nThe Nihon…
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The Real Test is Coming
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=62888" >U.S. Beef Supply About To Improve In Japan</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>According to the U.S. Meat Export Federation, the first ocean cargos of U.S. beef are about to arrive in Japan, after initial air shipments sold out in less than a day.<br />n<br />nAlthough U.S. beef is still in short supply, sea shipments should ease…
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Crystal Ball
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=59627" title="Crystal Ball Forecasting">Cattle Outlook: 2007 Similar Or A Little Lower Than 2006</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) annual outlook survey for the remainder of the year and 2007 for livestock and the marketing year of 2006-2007 for crops shows the Nebraska price for the year of 2006 at $83.20 and for…
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Interesting News
<a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-08-10T181804Z_01_N10469272_RTRIDST_0_FOOD-BEEF-JAPAN.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna" title="Reuters News">U.S. beef sales to Japan off to fast start</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Sales of U.S. beef to Japan are off to a fast start with 500 metric tons sold since the market reopened July 27 and three stores in Tokyo selling out of their offerings this week, U.S. meat industry sources said on Thursday.<br…
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Oil Prices
I was working on the books for the ranch yesterday and it sure isn't pretty with energy prices the way they are. Then this thing with the Alaskan oil fields happen and they expect prices to go <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/08/08/news/state/30-gas.txt">even higher</a>. We really don't need to see that happen. Cattle prices might be up nice for…