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During the recent U.S. Meat Export Federation annual meeting, former Trade Ambassador to China, Terry Branstad, discussed what he sees as keys to improving relations with the massive consumer of American ag products. He noted tops on his list; relationships ...

Last year, Japan was the second largest beef export market for U.S. producers, with sales of topping $2.4 billion. As Dan Hallstrom of the US Meat Export Federation explained the increasing demand to the Japanese marketplace includes: "Beef tongues going to Japan for yakineku; specialty item ...

USDA is reporting that the nation's cattle feed lots on May 1st were feeding 12 million head. "Which was the highest May 1st number since the series began in 1996." And 2% above May 1st a year ago. USDA livestock analyst Shayle Shagam said that's partly of the result of large numbers of placements of cattle into feed lots during March, and now during April, placements were 1 ... Read Mo

The Administration is gearing up for talks with key trading partners when it comes to the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. The hope is the strategy will strengthen trade relationships with allies in Asia. Travis Arp, Assistant Vice President of Export Services with U ...

As we start our six-part Northwest Farm Credit Services Quarterly Commodity snapshot series, we take a look at dairy and beef. Northwest Farm Credit Services Vice President Bill Perry says their outlook for cattle suggests slightly profitable returns for cow/calf producers ...

American ranchers can breathe a little easier after it was announced that the United States has struck a deal with Japan to reduce tariffs on beef imports. The effort is several years in the making. Beef industry officials had been working on reducing costly Japanese tariffs as part of a possible Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal that began during the Obama Administration ...

Earlier this week, several senators introduced an updated version of the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act. Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon, Jon Tester of Montana, Deb Fischer of Nebraska and Iowa’s Chuck Grassley unveiled the update to the legislation first introduced in November. The ...

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the U.S. and Japan reached an agreement that will help keep more American beef flowing into Japan. The two countries agreed to increase the beef safeguard trigger level under the U ...

For the meat trade picture, USDA's March WASDE report raised it's beef export forecast by 30 million pounds to 3.3 billion pounds. "That really just reflects observed data," said World Ag Outlook Board Chairman Mark Jekanowski. "So, updating the data based on the latest numbers from January and we saw a little bit of a bump in exports to China ...

On Tuesday, the Cattlemen’s Beef Board released its 2021 Annual Report. This latest report includes information about projects and results within each of the organization's program areas, including promotion, foreign marketing, consumer information, industry information, research and producer communications. The ...