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Brazil targets Pacific Rim
Despite being locked out of 56% of the world's markets due to foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), including Korea and Japan, Brazil still accounts for 32% of...
Running THE STALL
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled yet again on the 20-year-old trade spat between the U.S. and the European Union (EU) regarding growth hormones...
Ten Years Later
The past decade has brought tremendous change to beef-production systems across the world. Nowhere is this more true than in South America. It's these...
USDA looks to relax Argentina rule
Sen. John Tester (D-MT) and seven other U.S. Senators sent a letter to USDA Secretary Ed Schafer in March stating their strong concerns about USDA relaxing...
Brazil Slapdown
The European Union (EU) has restricted nearly all imports of Brazilian beef on animal health concerns, but EU farmers' groups think only an outright ban...
U.S. Beef Exports Gain 18% In Volume, 29% In Value
USDA says U.S. beef (including variety meat) exports were 18% higher in volume and 29% higher in value during the first 11 months of 2007 compared with the same period of 2006. The U.S. exported a total of 707,184 metric tons (mt) of beef, valued at $2.4 billion...
Seoul Seeks Beef Resolution To Salvage FTA
South Korea hopes to resolve its beef-trade spat with the U.S. as early as possible in order to bolster chances of parliamentary approval of the free-trade agreement signed last June, reports ...
Philippines open to U.S. Beef
The Philippines has fully opened its market to U.S. beef and beef products of all ages. Imports of U.S. beef and beef products had been restricted to...
8 in '08
Food Safety: For much of 2007, consumer and political concerns over beef safety, particularly E. coli O157:H7, had nearly been crossed off the list of industry issues. Then came the Topps recall...
Pushing for Peru
Fifty agricultural organizations representing U.S. farmers, ranchers, processors, food producers and exporters sent a letter to all members of Congress...
Record exports expected
USDA expects U.S. agriculture exports to hit a record $79 billion for fiscal year (FY) 2007, only to be eclipsed by the FY '08 projected total of $83.5...
ITC To Investigate Beef Trade
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has launched an investigation into the effects of animal health, sanitary and food safety measures on global beef trade and the impact of these and other restrictions on U.S. beef exports....
Panama Opens Border To Full U.S. Cattle Trade
Panama now accepts U.S. cattle of all ages, USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) says....
Committees Pass Peru Agreement
The Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee approved the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (PTPA)....
Does A New Japanese Ag Minister Equal New Hope?
Japan introduced another ag minister this week, which begs the obvious question: "Will the leadership change slow up the process of liberalizing Japan's market to U.S. beef products?" The answer is undoubtedly yes....
"All-Beef" Tour To Argentina & Brazil Deadline Nears
There are two words that particularly stir the competitive anxiety of U.S. beef producers -- "Argentina" and "Brazil, " two countries with seemingly inexhaustible natural resources, cheap labor and governments pinning their people's future on agricultural development. ...
Reserve Your Seat On The BEEF Tour Of South America
Join the 2008 Beef Study Tour to South America and experience the beef production systems of Argentina and Brazil, Jan. 19-Feb. 1, 2008. ...
UK Corrals FMD Outbreak
There are few words in the English language that get consumers and farmers quaking in their boots like foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). When FMD struck the...
EC rules on GM
In a move sure to raise howls of protest from activists, the European Commission (EC) ruled last month that animals fed genetically modified (GM) feed...
Canada testing regs
Effective Aug. 22, tuberculosis (TB) and brucellosis testing requirements for feeder cattle going to Canada have been eliminated, USDA's Animal and Plant...
R-CALF's Canadian Suit Fails Again
Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America (R-CALF) added to its long list of courtroom setbacks this week when...
TPA expires
Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), which gives the president the ability to negotiate trade agreements with a straight up-or-down vote by Congress, expired...
Canada feed regs
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced that bovine specified risk material (SRM) will be banned from all animal feed, pet food and fertilizer,...
The COOL Compromise Is Typical Of The Beltway
After years of delaying the implementation of mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) because of the problems associated with the law, it had come down to crunch time. ...
Eyes On Argentina
Cactus Argentina has all the look and feel of a Texas Panhandle feedyard. After all, Cactus Feeders of Amarillo, TX, has worked since 1999 to introduce...
From Our Columnists
Even With High Prices, Be Sure To Weigh The Return
Depending on which side of the biscuit you butter, these are fixing to be halcyon days in the cow-calf business. At least they are judging by the chatter you hear...
Key Economic Opportunities In Calf Marketing
My last series of articles focused on the economic challenges occurring in the beef-cow sector since the start of the biofuels era. This month, I’ll focus on the key economic opportunities...
Nitrate Accumulation In Plants Is A Matter Of Many Factors
Drought has made it a very rough year for many herds in the U.S. In the midst of this scramble for forage in drought areas, we need to be careful about where feeds originate...
