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U.S.-Malaysia FTA Negotiations To Begin
South Korea Sets U.S. Beef Import Rules
South Korea has formulated its list of beef cuts ineligible for its market when U.S. beef imports resume early next month. ...
Food Safety Not Only Concern Of UK Calf Exports
U.S. Senator Warns Japan of Sanctions
South Korea Sets U.S. Beef Import Rules
The BSE saga continues
A market-recovery process that was beginning to widen its stride in late 2005 and early 2006 slowed to a shuffle Jan. 20. That's the day Japanese inspectors...
And the dance goes on
At press time, USDA had just given Japan the results of its investigation into the veal shipment that re-shuttered the Japanese market to U.S. beef on...
U.S. & South Korea enter free trade talks
The U.S. and South Korea intend to negotiate a bilateral free-trade agreement (FTA). USDA Secretary Mike Johanns says the agreement will greatly improve...
Bill introduced to ban USDA quality grades on imports
Rep. Stephanie Herseth (D-SD) introduced H.R. 4689 to prohibit use of USDA quality grades on imported beef and lamb. Pork would be exempt. Sen. Tim Johnson...
Japanese Sun Rises Slowly
In some ways, speculation about when Japanese beef trade would resume has had more impact on price than when the market actually opened. Trade resumption...
It's QSA school time
The Dec. 12 announcement partially reopening the Japanese market to U.S. beef buoyed spirits considerably among American beef interests, and even some...
U.S., South Korea reach trade deal
At press time, South Korea and U.S. negotiators had reached an agreement on reopening that Pacific Rim market to limited U.S. beef exports. On Jan. 13,...
Hong Kong reopens
Hong Kong has reopened to U.S. boneless beef from cattle less than 30 months of age. Before Hong Kong banned U.S. beef in 2003, it imported $90 million...
Brazil to set export record
Brazil will export a record amount of beef in 2005 despite an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in the states of Mato Grosso do Sul and Parana...
QSA Joins The Industry Lexicon
Depending on your point of view, quality system assessment (QSA) programs can be simple, complex, common sense, or a lot of work. But no matter your opinion,...
U.S. Shut Out Of Japan, Again
Vertebral column found in an 860-lb. beef shipment from Brooklyn, NY, meatpacker Atlantic Veal & Lamb, Inc., to Japan has undone the partial reopening of that market announced Dec. 12. ...
Fowl Odds
There's a fair bit of coffee shop chatter about how avian influenza (AI) could impact the infrastructure of the U.S. cattle industry. Namely, if the disease...
Unfilled Demand
Across the Atlantic Ocean, in the Old World, a new world is emerging. No longer is the subject of beef restricted to cow-calf or feeder, Irish or German....
Japan reopens to U.S. beef
At press time, it appeared U.S. beef products would return to Japan just a week or so shy of the ban's two-year anniversary. On Dec. 12, 2005, Japan announced...
U.S. beef back in Japan
Japan announced Jan. 12 the partial reopening of its domestic market to imports of U.S. and Canadian beef. Closed to both countries since 2003 Canada...
Thinking Global
How in the world can we compete? That's what American cattle ranchers ask as they face the reality of producing cattle and beef in a global marketplace....
Japan Reopens; First Product On The Way
U.S. beef products will be back in Japan by the time you read this....
There Will Be Prime Rib In Japan For Christmas
After being locked out of the Japanese market for roughly two years, the market is partially reopening ...
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