Beef Industry News and Views
AUSTRALIANS Supporting Beef Farmers are apologising to the Indonesian Feedlotter Association about the cattle export bans. ASBF was set up by a group of Queensland producers following the Federal Government’s live cattle export ban. The group’s chairwoman Kelsey Neilson is sending a letter to Indonesian Feedlotter Association executive director Joni Liano in Jakarta Selatan in [...]
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TOKYO: More than six times the legal limit of radioactive caesium has been found in beef from Fukushima prefecture, home to Japan’s crippled nuclear plant, an official statement said on Saturday. Prime Minister Naoto Kan said it will take decades to clean up and decommission the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant after the world’s worst atomic [...]
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LAHORE: Pakistan’s leather sector has predicted that since the country is experiencing a grave dearth of livestock due to irrational export and unabated smuggling of cattle to the neighbouring countries, the prices of sacrificial animals are most likely to double by the coming Eid-ul-Azha. According to fresh data released by the Pakistan Tanners Association in [...]
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South Korea has agreed to resume beef imports from Canada, lifting its eight-year ban imposed following an outbreak of mad cow disease in the North American country, Yonhap news agency said Tuesday. Under the agreement, South Korea will resume importing Canadian beef and bones from cows that are aged 30 months or less, according to [...]
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Korean imports of U.S. pork and beef rose at a far faster pace than those of other overseas meat products this year following the outbreak of a contagious animal disease here, government data showed yesterday. Imports of U.S. pork spiked about 2.5-fold from a year ago to 82,569 tons in the January-May period, with overall [...]
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By EVAN RAMSTAD/ WSJ SEOUL—The U.S. and South Korea over the weekend finally finished reshaping a sweeping free-trade agreement that had been stuck in legislative limbo since 2007, making compromises that drew some political criticism here over fairness but not enough to harm the likelihood of ratification. Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon, in a nationally televised [...]
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By Kim Tong-hyung South Korea and the United States will resume talks this week to attempt a breakthrough in their long-stalled free trade agreement (FTA), government officials said. The negotiations are likely to be challenging, however, as the countries have been struggling to find a middle ground on outstanding issues involving auto trade and beef. [...]
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ANY immediate prospect of Bra-zilian beef exports to Indonesia appears to have disappeared, fol-lowing an Indonesian Supreme Court ruling in favour of limiting importation to FMD-free countries only. In recent months it appeared likely that Indonesia was going to accept a zone-based FMD status for Brazil, allowing beef imports from those Brazilian states declared disease-free. [...]
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South Korean imports of US beef reportedly more than doubled in the first half of the year from 2009 making it the 4th largest importer of US beef after Mexico, Canada and Japan. The US Department of Agriculture says some 57-thousand tons of US beef were exported to the country in the first six months [...]
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Brazil’s state-controlled Caixa Economica Federal will finance up to 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) in beef shipments to Iran after private banks refused to extend credit to exporters, fearing retaliation from the U.S. and European Union, Valor Economico said. The financing will be backed by Brazil’s Treasury, which will be responsible for collecting payment from [...]
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