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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...
Japanese beef back in Hong Kong
The Japanese beef exports to Hong Kong that resumed last month after a five-year hiatus did so under a 30-month age restriction, rather than the 20-month...
Don't Expect Any Movement On COOL This Summer
While the farm bill normally would be the preeminent piece of legislation everyone would be talking about at this juncture, it will be hard for any issue to displace the Iraq military situation,...
Export Developments Encouraging
The OIE announcement this week that the U.S. is a controlled-risk nation for BSE is encouraging news, says Phil Seng of the U.S. Meat Export Federation. However, he cautions that Japan, South Korea and other countries won't open overnight to U.S. beef. Each country has ...
South Korean Pols Push For COOL On Beef & Rice
Wary, they say, about health concerns with U.S. beef, a group of 19 South Korean lawmakers submitted bills this week to tighten safeguard measures on imported beef and rice, Yonhap News reports...
COOL More Valuable As A Non-Reality
Few issues have been more controversial and divisive in the cattle industry than country-of-origin labeling (COOL). With the 2007 farm bill debate heating up, its front-and-center position is assured...
FTA deal leaves U.S. beef behind
Insanity, they say, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. U.S. trade negotiators are apparently willing to put that old...
Move up COOL
Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) proposed an amendment to the Iraq war supplemental appropriations bill that would have moved the implementation date for mandatory...
Korean FTA Is A Critical Crossroads
Get ready to add a new acronym to your vocabulary -- KORUS FTA -- the Korean-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. On April 1, at the last possible moment, the U.S. and South Korea reached agreement...
Over-30 Impacts
Many U.S. cattle producers have serious concerns over expanding allowable beef imports from Canada. They believe a recent proposal by USDA to open the...
Record exports expected
USDA expects agricultural exports to hit a record $78 billion for fiscal year 2007, with two-thirds of the increase due to the grain and oilseed sectors....
Mexico is tops
For the third consecutive year, Mexico led all markets in volume and value for U.S. beef and beef variety meats in 2006, says the U.S. Meat Export Federation....
U.S. ruled controlled risk
In a move seen as bolstering efforts to fully reopen Pacific Rim markets for U.S. beef, the World Organization for Animal Health's (OIE) Scientific Commission endorsed last month an OIE expert panel recommendation that the U.S. be classified as...
U.S.-South Korea FTA Frenzy Continues To Deadline
Impact Of "Over-30" Cattle Impacts Will Be Minimal
Many U.S. cattle producers have serious concerns over expanding allowable beef imports from Canada. They believe a recent proposal by USDA ...
Speed up COOL
Sen. Craig Thomas (R-WY) introduced S. 404, the Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) Act of 2007, which would move...
U.S. Red Meat Exports Continue To Increase In 2006
For the third consecutive year, Mexico led all markets in volume and value for U.S. beef and beef variety meats in 2006...
Korea Heads Toward The Final End Game
If there's going to be a U.S./Korean free trade agreement (FTA), it must be submitted to Congress by March 30. That means that within the next 30 days or so...
Canada Elimination of Bluetongue Testing Applauded
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has eliminated all bluetongue-related import restrictions on U.S. cattle entering Canada...
One Million Europeans Call For GM Labeling
This week, the environmental activist group Greenpeace delivered 1 million signatures petitioning the European Commission to label all milk, meat and egg products...
From Our Columnists
Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut
Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...
Buy/sell margins - part III
The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...
Planning for successful breeding
What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...
