Beef Industry News and Views
GOVERNMENT is focusing on its food security program and investments will be made in areas that promote the production of food items that are imported but could be produced locally. To that end, the Department of Agriculture was examining the feasibility of revitalising the Yalavou Beef Scheme in the highlands of Navosa, said Agriculture permanent [...]
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UTSUNOMIYA, Tochigi Pref. — Agura Bokujo, a cattle farm business with operations nationwide, has filed for bankruptcy protection, blaming the crisis at the leaking Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which it says prompted a rise in canceled contracts after radioactive elements were detected in beef, a company executive said Wednesday. The Tokyo District Court [...]
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With 248 million middle class consumers in China, the demand for high quality Australian beef is set to remain strong according to NAB Head of Group Development for Greater China, Vincent Lo. Mr Lo, presenting at the Australian Meat Industry Council’s (AMIC) 2011 Meat Industry Conference on the Gold Coast in Queensland this week, said [...]
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FUKUSHIMA (Kyodo) — Farmers in Fukushima, Iwate and Tochigi prefectures on Sunday resumed shipping cattle to market, as the central government on Thursday lifted a ban on shipments after deciding sufficient measures have been taken to ensure no radioactive contaminated beef is marketed. In Fukushima, 23 farms each delivered one beef cattle to a meat [...]
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TOKYO — Despite continuing fears over the safety of food from the area of the disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan has lifted a ban on beef shipments from there that it had imposed just a month ago, when meat contaminated with radioactive material was found to have reached Japanese supermarkets. The decision to [...]
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OTTAWA – For the first time since 2003, an Asian market has opened its doors to Canadian live breeding cattle, sheep and goats. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and International Trade Minister Ed Fast made the announcement today that trade with the Vietnamese market will resume immediately. The move comes as Vietnam’s Department of Animal Health [...]
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TOKYO (Kyodo) — The Japanese government on Monday ordered the suspension of all shipments of beef cattle from Iwate Prefecture after a number of cattle raised there were found to be contaminated with radioactive cesium. Iwate is the third prefecture, after Fukushima and Miyagi also in northeastern Japan, to be ordered by the central government [...]
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Indian buffalo meat exporters, who have freshly entered the Philippines export market, have come under the scanner for possible foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) contamination. Members of the Philippine Association of Meat Processors (PAMPI) feel that buffalo meat (carabeef) imported from India could be contaminated as FMD is chronic in India while Philippines has been declared FMD-free [...]
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Beef cattle shipments from areas near Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant were banned as consumers and lawmakers accused the government of negligence after more cows were found contaminated with radiation. Authorities discovered 637 cattle that had been fed hay tainted with radioactive cesium and sent to market from farms in prefectures including Fukushima, Masahiro Seki, [...]
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A radioactivity scare affecting locally produced beef continued to spread across Japan on Sunday, after more than three quarters of the country’s regions reported receiving tainted meat. Cesium, three to six times higher than safety standards permit, was found last week in beef shipped to Tokyo. On Tuesday the government is expected to ban all [...]
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