Category: markets
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Cull Cows
I always have to laugh when I read articles like this one: (warning: if you are not in the cattle business, this article will have no interest for you)<br />n<br />n<a href="http://cattletoday.com/archive/2006/June/CT488.shtml">HUNTIN' DAYLIGHT — BOOSTING RETURNS WITH CULL COWS</a><br />n<br />nWhy do I laugh at this article though? It tells you the advantages of not…
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Mealy Mouthed Platitudes
<a href="http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/business/news/20060520p2g00m0bu008000c.html">Japan making ready to resume U.S. beef imports in July</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The Japanese government on Friday began to make preparations for the resumption of U.S. beef imports in July, paying particular attention to how it will deepen communications with consumers still worried about mad cow disease.<br />n<br />nAt a three-day working-level meeting between Japan…
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To Market
<center><div class="serendipity_imageComment_center" style="width: 640px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/gather05082006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/gather05082006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">Gathering the last of the pairs and the drys. The drys are going to market. There are fewer than normal for me so it was a pretty good year last year with an easy calving season. Taken 5/8/2006.</div></div></center><br />n<br />nAbout a month…
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Will It Ever Happen?
<a href="http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/business/20060507TDY01005.htm"> Pressure grows to lift U.S. beef ban</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Calls from government officials to resume beef imports from the United States have been growing as Tokyo and Washington are set to hold negotiations on the issue later this month, with many officials advocating an end to the ban even before the safety of U.S.…
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Good For The Goose
I find Sen Chuck Schumer's <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/story?id=1906985&page=1">comments yesterday</a> very interesting. Why you may ask? <br />n<br />nHe states that there are five oil companies and they don't compete. That "We should do a little good, old fashioned trust busting," and that "What's good for Exxon Mobil is not necessarily good for America."<br />n<br />nFor years…
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So Full Of S**t He Stinks
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/29/news/local/40-japan.txt">Consul: Japan beef deal near</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Japanese and U.S. officials are in the final stages of negotiating an end to a ban on American beef imports to Japan, the Japanese consul general in Seattle said Friday.<br />n<br />n"I can't say when, but it's only a matter of time," Kazuo Tanaka said during a visit…
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Beef News
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=axd6YYeYJ8DI&refer=asia">South Korea to Resume U.S. Beef Imports as Agreed</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>South Korea, which was the third- biggest buyer of U.S. beef in 2003, will resume imports from the U.S. after confirming a cow infected with mad-cow disease in Alabama was born before feed restrictions were imposed.<br />n<br />nSouth Korean veterinarians confirmed the cow was…
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Japan And Beef
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/21/AR2006042100314.html">Japan consumers voice US beef worries at meeting</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Japanese consumers voiced concerns about a U.S. inspection system for mad cow disease at a meeting in Tokyo on Friday sponsored by the government to discuss a resumption of U.S. beef imports.<br />n<br />nIt was one of 10 meetings on the issue across the nation…
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Japan to Open Beef Market?
I find this interesting piece out of Australia this morning but I can find no verification anywhere else on what it says.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1605659.htm">US reaches agreement with Japan to reopen beef market</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>US Department of Agriculture (<acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>) officials says…
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I Guess I’m Stupid
I always love articles like this one.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=26211">Cattle Cycles: Where Are We & Where Are We Headed?</a><br />n<br />nIf you are in the business and keep minimal track of what is going on you know where we are and what is happening with out some "expert" telling you. I could see this article…