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Asia Pacific

Japan objects to U.S. plan to scale back BSE surveillance
Japanese Agriculture Minister Shoichi Nakagawa told U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns Tuesday that reducing the number of U.S. cattle tested for bovine spongiform encephalopathy won't be warmly received in Japan.

Beef to Japan deadline
The United States should take action against Japan if that country doesn’t open up to imports of American beef by June 1, Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson said Tuesday.

High costs for country of origin labelling in Australia
The report, which includes an independent study by the Centre for International Economics, concluded that this benefit to consumers would be outweighed by the costs to industry, which would harm the competitiveness of affected Australian-made goods.

Lamb sales to Japan booming
Sales of Aussie lamb into Japan are booming, with annual growth rates of up to 70 per cent.

America

Fewer Canadian pigs, better U.S. market
U.S. hog prices will likely benefit from a small decline in the Canadian hog herd, about a quarter of which are exported to the United States as feeder pigs or slaughter hogs, livestock analysts said.

Europe

Beef exports resume after ten years
THE first Scotch beef to be exported for ten years left a Stirlingshire meat-processing plant for the Netherlands yesterday, when a European Union ban was officially lifted.

USA

Beef brands gain on tenderness
Beef tenderness may not be everything when it comes to consumer eating satisfaction, but guaranteeing it can propel a relatively young beef brand into the same major tonnage league as the venerable Certified Angus Beef

USDA releases report on investigation into Alabama BSE case
USDA’s Animal and Health and Inspection Service (APHIS) today released the results of an investigation into a BSE case identified in Alabama in March and noted that the animal was a non-ambulatory red crossbred, and that dentition determined that the animal was more than ten years old.

Asia Pacific

Japan objects to U.S. plan to scale back BSE surveillance
Japanese Agriculture Minister Shoichi Nakagawa told U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns Tuesday that reducing the number of U.S. cattle tested for bovine spongiform encephalopathy won't be warmly received in Japan.

Beef to Japan deadline
The United States should take action against Japan if that country doesn’t open up to imports of American beef by June 1, Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson said Tuesday.

High costs for country of origin labelling in Australia
The report, which includes an independent study by the Centre for International Economics, concluded that this benefit to consumers would be outweighed by the costs to industry, which would harm the competitiveness of affected Australian-made goods.

Lamb sales to Japan booming
Sales of Aussie lamb into Japan are booming, with annual growth rates of up to 70 per cent.

America

Fewer Canadian pigs, better U.S. market
U.S. hog prices will likely benefit from a small decline in the Canadian hog herd, about a quarter of which are exported to the United States as feeder pigs or slaughter hogs, livestock analysts said.

Europe

Beef exports resume after ten years
THE first Scotch beef to be exported for ten years left a Stirlingshire meat-processing plant for the Netherlands yesterday, when a European Union ban was officially lifted.

USA

Beef brands gain on tenderness
Beef tenderness may not be everything when it comes to consumer eating satisfaction, but guaranteeing it can propel a relatively young beef brand into the same major tonnage league as the venerable Certified Angus Beef

USDA releases report on investigation into Alabama BSE case
USDA’s Animal and Health and Inspection Service (APHIS) today released the results of an investigation into a BSE case identified in Alabama in March and noted that the animal was a non-ambulatory red crossbred, and that dentition determined that the animal was more than ten years old.