Category: markets
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Grass Fed
I have been hearing more and more about <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/08/04/news/business/20-grass-beet.txt">grass fed beef</a> and the potential there is for profitability there. I'm not opposed in any way, shape or form to people doing this. I think it's great for the cattle business as a whole.It takes many more acres of ground to get a critter to…
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It Actually Happened
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/J/JAPAN_US_BEEF?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Japan lifts ban on U.S. beef imports</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>apan on Thursday announced the resumption of U.S. beef imports, ending a ban imposed in January due to concerns about mad cow disease that had strained ties with Washington.<br />n<br />nU.S. Ambassador Thomas Schieffer immediately welcomed the move, which reopens Japan's lucrative market to a select…
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Closer Yet
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/J/JAPAN_US_BEEF?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Japan prepares to lift ban on U.S. beef</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Japan is expected to approve a partial resumption of imports of U.S. beef this coming week, a news report said Saturday.<br />n<br />nThe government plans to officially approve the resumption on Thursday, the national Yomiuri newspaper said, without citing sources, which is customary in Japanese…
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Quick Items
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Canadian BSE and US Trade
<a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/06072006/6/n-canada-canada-cows-complicate-seoul-beef-trade-source.html">Canada cows complicate US, Seoul beef trade: source</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>South Korea has told the Bush administration it will not resume beef trade until U.S. slaughterhouses segregate Canadian beef products, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.<br />n<br />nSouth Korea closed its borders to U.S. beef in December 2003 after the first U.S.…
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Canadian BSE
I have not commented on the latest <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/07/05/news/state/65-mad-cow.txt">cow with <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> in Canada</a> because testing caught it and it was an older cow born before the 1997 feed ban. In a way the whole <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> thing has become a non issue to the public and with other things going…
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In Demand
Earlier in the month the guy who bought my calves last year came up again and looked the calves over. He also shared with us some kill sheets he had just got from the packer on how some of the calves did at the slaughter plant. It was all gobbledygook to me but here the…
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Agreement
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_JAPAN_MAD_COW?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Japan agrees to lift ban on U.S. beef</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Japan agreed Wednesday to lift its ban on U.S. beef imports, pending planned inspections of U.S. meat processing plants, the agriculture ministry said. The Asian nation imposed the ban over concerns about mad cow disease.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI am glad to see that this long running…
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Beef Supply Forecast
<blockquote>The Association warns there will be, “A world beef deficit in five years.” NBA chief executive, Robert Forster, says growth in the world economy, especially in Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent and the former Soviet Bloc, will increase demand for beef while the two major beef exporters, Brazil and Argentina will not be able to…
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USDA Fights for Canadian Cattle
USDA stands for United States Department of Agriculture. I repeat United States. Check this out.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.r-calfusa.com/061406-usda.htm"><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>’s Inconsistent <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> Policies Continue to Cost U.S. Cattle Industry Billions</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Following the December 2003 discovery in Washington state of…