Asia PacificJapan Considers Reducing U.S. Beef Import InspectionsThe Japanes...

Asia Pacific
Japan Considers Reducing U.S. Beef Import Inspections
The Japanese government is considering ending its current practice of inspecting all boxes of U.S. beef imports over bovine spongiform encephalopathy fears.

Koreans Want More Bacon but Fewer Pigs
On the Chinese zodiac, 2007 is the year of the pig, a golden pig at that. Whatever the year, Koreans have something of a love affair with pork. But the rising demand for pork bellies has come at a price: lagging sales of other types of pork.

Oceania
December beef exports to Korea strong
Australian beef exports to South Korea leap while U.S. beef is kept off the market.

Ethanol demand may benefit NZ beef
The world’s thirst for energy from ethanol, an alternative to fossil fuels, is likely to drive up the price of protein meat and should be good news for New Zealand.

Americas
Brazil banks on beef
James King Carr De Muzio started cattle ranching later in life. But the easy-mannered 53-year-old Brazilian doctor and rancher feels as comfortable in the saddle as he does wearing surgical scrubs.

United States
The Smell of Money? Profitability drives Iowa's pork boom
Rapid growth of Iowa’s pork industry and the resulting “smell of money” for those downwind is fanned by 34 consecutive months of better-than-average profits.

Regulator proposes re-opening border to Mexican pork
US food companies may soon be able to restart sending their pork supplies to Mexico for processing, if US Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposals are given the go-ahead.

Asia Pacific
Japan Considers Reducing U.S. Beef Import Inspections
The Japanese government is considering ending its current practice of inspecting all boxes of U.S. beef imports over bovine spongiform encephalopathy fears.

Koreans Want More Bacon but Fewer Pigs
On the Chinese zodiac, 2007 is the year of the pig, a golden pig at that. Whatever the year, Koreans have something of a love affair with pork. But the rising demand for pork bellies has come at a price: lagging sales of other types of pork.

Oceania
December beef exports to Korea strong
Australian beef exports to South Korea leap while U.S. beef is kept off the market.

Ethanol demand may benefit NZ beef
The world’s thirst for energy from ethanol, an alternative to fossil fuels, is likely to drive up the price of protein meat and should be good news for New Zealand.

Americas
Brazil banks on beef
James King Carr De Muzio started cattle ranching later in life. But the easy-mannered 53-year-old Brazilian doctor and rancher feels as comfortable in the saddle as he does wearing surgical scrubs.

United States
The Smell of Money? Profitability drives Iowa's pork boom
Rapid growth of Iowa’s pork industry and the resulting “smell of money” for those downwind is fanned by 34 consecutive months of better-than-average profits.

Regulator proposes re-opening border to Mexican pork
US food companies may soon be able to restart sending their pork supplies to Mexico for processing, if US Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposals are given the go-ahead.