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Asia Pacific
Asia meeting offers some reality, more dreams
The dream of a pan-Asian organisation able to draw on the power of many rather than leaving individual nations to struggle alone is becoming reality, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Sunday.
UPDATE 1-USDA asks Japan to delay rules on beef imports
The United States has asked Japan to extend a July 1 deadline for assurances that any American beef shipped to Japan did not originate in Canada, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said on Friday.
Americas
Canadian BSE slims U.S. steer weights
Canadian cattle weights are rising rapidly and marketings from Canadian feedyards are becoming backlogged as U.S. slaughter has increased to fill the void left by the reduction in world beef supplies associated with the closure of Canada's borders.
Canada aims to bridge world farm subsidy breach
Canada is drawing up plans to bridge the gap splitting rich and poor nations on farm subsidies in a bid to lay the foundation of world trade talks later this year, Canadian Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew said on Sunday.
Europe
U.S. says trade talks progress depends on EU
The United States said on Saturday that the European Union needed to move ahead with reforms of its agriculture policy for global trade talks to be a success.
UPDATE 2-WTO chief sounds alarm bell as trade ministers meet
The head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) expressed fears over the state of talks to liberalise global commerce on Saturday as trade ministers tried to thrash out the tough issue of agriculture.
EU/USA: US requests WTO panel to decide case against EU biotech policy
Despite recent discussions between the European Union and the United States on the EU's moratorium on approving new genetically modified organisms, the US has called on the World Trade Organisation to form a panel to decide the case, according to the US Trade Representative office.
Protest at Congress
Raoul Baxter, the European president of Smithfield Foods, was attacked by an animal rights protestor as he was delivering a speech to the World Pork Congress in Birmingham, England.
USA
300 sheep poisoned in Idaho
Researchers say more than 300 sheep grazing near a former phosphate mine in Idaho died after eating plants contaminated with selenium, a waste product from mining.
Farmland Deal Almost Final
U.S. Premium Beef will purchase Farmland National Beef for $232 million if it can secure financing.
Asia Pacific
Asia meeting offers some reality, more dreams
The dream of a pan-Asian organisation able to draw on the power of many rather than leaving individual nations to struggle alone is becoming reality, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Sunday.
UPDATE 1-USDA asks Japan to delay rules on beef imports
The United States has asked Japan to extend a July 1 deadline for assurances that any American beef shipped to Japan did not originate in Canada, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said on Friday.
Americas
Canadian BSE slims U.S. steer weights
Canadian cattle weights are rising rapidly and marketings from Canadian feedyards are becoming backlogged as U.S. slaughter has increased to fill the void left by the reduction in world beef supplies associated with the closure of Canada's borders.
Canada aims to bridge world farm subsidy breach
Canada is drawing up plans to bridge the gap splitting rich and poor nations on farm subsidies in a bid to lay the foundation of world trade talks later this year, Canadian Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew said on Sunday.
Europe
U.S. says trade talks progress depends on EU
The United States said on Saturday that the European Union needed to move ahead with reforms of its agriculture policy for global trade talks to be a success.
UPDATE 2-WTO chief sounds alarm bell as trade ministers meet
The head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) expressed fears over the state of talks to liberalise global commerce on Saturday as trade ministers tried to thrash out the tough issue of agriculture.
EU/USA: US requests WTO panel to decide case against EU biotech policy
Despite recent discussions between the European Union and the United States on the EU’s moratorium on approving new genetically modified organisms, the US has called on the World Trade Organisation to form a panel to decide the case, according to the US Trade Representative office.
Protest at Congress
Raoul Baxter, the European president of Smithfield Foods, was attacked by an animal rights protestor as he was delivering a speech to the World Pork Congress in Birmingham, England.
USA
300 sheep poisoned in Idaho
Researchers say more than 300 sheep grazing near a former phosphate mine in Idaho died after eating plants contaminated with selenium, a waste product from mining.
Farmland Deal Almost Final
U.S. Premium Beef will purchase Farmland National Beef for $232 million if it can secure financing.