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Slow Pacific-Rim Progress Begs The Question, "Why?"  

This week, it was announced that Japan had agreed to discontinue inspections of entire meat shipments from the U.S. Both sides also agreed to speed up and facilitate Japan's inspection of U.S. plants to make implementation follow more quickly...

Korean FTA Is A Critical Crossroads 

Get ready to add a new acronym to your vocabulary -- KORUS FTA -- the Korean-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. On April 1, at the last possible moment, the U.S. and South Korea reached agreement...

U.S. ruled controlled risk 

In a move seen as bolstering efforts to fully reopen Pacific Rim markets for U.S. beef, the World Organization for Animal Health's (OIE) Scientific Commission endorsed last month an OIE expert panel recommendation that the U.S. be classified as...

Over-30 Impacts 

Many U.S. cattle producers have serious concerns over expanding allowable beef imports from Canada. They believe a recent proposal by USDA to open the...

U.S.-South Korea FTA Frenzy Continues To Deadline 

Impact Of "Over-30" Cattle Impacts Will Be Minimal 

Many U.S. cattle producers have serious concerns over expanding allowable beef imports from Canada. They believe a recent proposal by USDA ...

COOL Issues Heating Up Once Again 

The political wrangling for the new farm bill is starting to hit high gear. One hint is the debate over country-of-origin labeling (COOL) in which both sides are pulling out the heavy artillery...

Deal, or no deal? 

March 30 is throw-down time for a U.S.-Korean free trade agreement (FTA). Any agreement must be concluded by then in order to allow for the 90-day review...

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From Our Columnists

Jim Gerrish

Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut

Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...

Jim Gerrish Archive

Harlan Hughes

Buy/sell margins - part III

The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...

Harlan Hughes Archive

Mark Hilton

Planning for successful breeding

What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...

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