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Asia Pacific
Lambert to Japan with inspection results
USDA Deputy Under Secretary Chuck Lambert will fly to Tokyo early next week to meet with Japanese agricultural experts and present the findings of USDA's inspections of meatpackers who wish to export beef to Japan.
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Farmland Foods’ Pork Processing Plants Earn Governor’s Iowa Environmental Excellence Award
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Asia Pacific
Lambert to Japan with inspection results
USDA Deputy Under Secretary Chuck Lambert will fly to Tokyo early next week to meet with Japanese agricultural experts and present the findings of USDA's inspections of meatpackers who wish to export beef to Japan.
America
Canadian hog herd not growing
Canada's latest hog-inventory report shows that the swine herd is not growing. As of April 1, there were 1.6 million sows and bred gilts in Canada, fewer than in April 2005.
Europe
Beef cutting rules mean cost and confusion for farmer-butchers
Farmer-butchers selling top-quality beef direct to consumers are being undermined by new regulations requiring the removal of vertebral column from over-24 month carcasses.
UK's first delivery since ban seeks to reawaken French love of British beef
Franceused to love British beef. It was the biggest overseas market for UK producers before 1996 when bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in British cattle triggered a European Union export ban.
USA
Farmland Foods’ Pork Processing Plants Earn Governor’s Iowa Environmental Excellence Award
Farmland Foods, Inc. has received the 2005 Governor’s Iowa Environmental Excellence Award for the company’s leadership and innovation in protecting Iowa’s natural resources.