Beef Deal Needs Work
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TOKYO (DTN) -- Here&#39;s the good news on the high-level US-Japan mad cow talks last week in Tokyo: Japan (in principle) will lift a ban on US beef that was put in place last December after the first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was
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Cattle worriers to explain bovine girl-on-girl
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Federal officials are trying to track down the 143 million pounds of beef recalled Sunday, but they say that most of it has probably been eaten.
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WASHINGTON -- A new US agriculture secretary was named yesterday, a development welcomed by the Canadian Cattlemen&#39;s Association at a critical juncture for resolving the beef battle with Canada.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C.  - The Bush administration must  restore U.S. beef exports to Japan and South Korea before it  opens the border to Canadian cattle, the National Cattlemen's  Beef Association said, shifting away from calling on the United  States to set a good example on beef trade for nations dealing  with mad cow disease.
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First she had to find an organic cattle farm near Washington. Then a shochet, a person trained in kosher slaughtering, who was willing to do a freelance job. Then a kosher butcher to carve the beef into various cuts and other families from her synagogue to share it.
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Improving the microbes and building expensive factories are two of the hurdles awaiting the cellulosic ethanol industry.
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Help is hard to find on Essex County farms. Not enough people know how to operate heavy farm equipment either. Packers and sales help at the farm stand are tough to find, too.
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THE PROBLEM: Bare dirt and prairie dog mounds on land where South Dakota ranchers say their cattle should be growing fat on grass.
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Japan and the United States reached an agreement this morning that will allow the export of some American beef. The Japanese halted trade after a case of mad cow disease in Washington state last December, but now they have agreed to do business again.
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Colorado is considering letting prison inmates work on private farms after farmers complained that an illegal-immigration crackdown has left them short-handed, officials said.
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The cattle industry and animal rights groups bickered over the treatment of beef destined for U.S. dinner plates a day after secret video triggered the nation's largest meat recall.
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The Bull makes some good points -- but not good enough.
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29/10/2004 National Foods will hunt for a &quot;white knight&quot; to protect it from Fonterra`s $A1.62 billion ($NZ1.76 billion) bid, raising the risk New Zealand dairy farmers will get dragged into an expensive bidding war.
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(CP) - President George W. Bush offered Saturday to throw his administration's full weight behind reopening the border to Canadian beef within several months.
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JARUCO, Cuba  - Down on the ranch, the talk among the cattle hands is that help is on its way.
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Canada is already positioned to benefit from an agreement US officials are touting as a breakthrough beef deal with Japan, says the Canadian Beef Export Federation.