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Asia Pacific
THAILAND/USA: Thailand, US to negotiate free trade agreement
The US andThailand are to negotiate a free trade agreement this year, which will especially be focused on boosting the trade in food products between the two countries.
Key Issues for Beef Market
Despite uncertain times in the forecast, the Australian beef and cattle industries are optimistic about the future.
Europe
Italian researchers discover possible new strain of BSE
A study by an Italian research group published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests the discovery of a new strain of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
New strain of mad cow found
Scientists inEurope have found a second strain of mad cow disease. The version found in two Italian cattle has molecular similarities to a human brain disease that is more common than the version of the illness now linked to eating infected beef.
USA
WORC confident high court will rule beef checkoff unconstitutional
The Western Organization of Resource Councils is criticizing the Justice Department for asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a July ruling by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that found a national beef checkoff program is unconstitutional, and that American beef producers do not have to pay a $1-per-head fee on cattle sold in the United States.
U.S. beef, pork exports set new record in 2003
It might be cold comfort to many processors given the events in recent months, but last year was a very good year forU.S. beef and pork exports.
After mad cow scare, prices mooove back up
Bidding was bullish at this week's Iowa Beef Expo, as cow-calf producers, seemingly impervious to fallout from the firstU.S. mad cow case, paid top dollar for purebred breeding stock.
Asia Pacific
THAILAND/USA: Thailand, US to negotiate free trade agreement
The US andThailand are to negotiate a free trade agreement this year, which will especially be focused on boosting the trade in food products between the two countries.
Key Issues for Beef Market
Despite uncertain times in the forecast, the Australian beef and cattle industries are optimistic about the future.
Europe
Italian researchers discover possible new strain of BSE
A study by an Italian research group published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests the discovery of a new strain of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
New strain of mad cow found
Scientists inEurope have found a second strain of mad cow disease. The version found in two Italian cattle has molecular similarities to a human brain disease that is more common than the version of the illness now linked to eating infected beef.
USA
WORC confident high court will rule beef checkoff unconstitutional
The Western Organization of Resource Councils is criticizing the Justice Department for asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a July ruling by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that found a national beef checkoff program is unconstitutional, and that American beef producers do not have to pay a $1-per-head fee on cattle sold in the United States.
U.S. beef, pork exports set new record in 2003
It might be cold comfort to many processors given the events in recent months, but last year was a very good year forU.S. beef and pork exports.
After mad cow scare, prices mooove back up
Bidding was bullish at this week's Iowa Beef Expo, as cow-calf producers, seemingly impervious to fallout from the firstU.S. mad cow case, paid top dollar for purebred breeding stock.