In U.S. Meat Export Federation’s (USMEF) weekly audio report we hear from Greg Hanes, USMEF assistant vice president of international marketing. He recently joined a group of U.S. producers in Japan and South Korea to promote Texas-style barbecue and the advantages of using U.S. beef – especially underutilized cuts – as part of the American dish. In the report Hanes … Read More
Missouri Grower Promotes Grain-fed Beef Overseas
Missouri Corn Merchandising Council board member Greg Schneider of Warrenton, Mo., recently joined a trade delegation to promote U.S. corn-fed beef in Japan and Korea. Encouraging consumption of grain-fed beef with meat distributors and retailers, Schneider joined farmers from four other states on the U.S. Meat Export Federation mission July 26-Aug. 1. “The global livestock industry is a major user … Read More
Changes Coming to Dairy Import Licensing Program
Changes are coming to the Dairy Tariff-Rate Import Quota Licensing Program. This news release from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says the changes are effective Sept. 1, 2015. Import licensing is one of the tools USDA uses to administer the tariff-rate quota (TRQ) system for U.S. imports of dairy products. A final rule published in today’s Federal Register (https://federalregister.gov/a/2015-18122) … Read More
Five Nations Beef Alliance Says TPP Must Deliver
Beef producers from Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) member countries are calling for a high-quality market access deal on beef to be secured at the TPP ministerial meeting in Hawaii in late July. The group make up the Five Nations Beef Alliance (FNBA) and include Cattle Council of Australia, Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, Confederacion Nacional de Organizaciones Ganaderas, Beef + Lamb New Zealand, … Read More
Nebraska Trade Mission Focuses on Beef
CNH Industrial welcomed Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts this week at the Expo Milano “Sustainable Farm Pavilion” sponsored by its agricultural machinery brand New Holland Agriculture. Also while the Governor was overseas with members of the trade mission team to the European Union, he met with a beef distributor in Italy. Their discussion was focused on driving the value and demand … Read More
Canada and Mexico Start COOL Retaliation Process
The governments of Mexico and Canada Thursday officially requested retaliation rights against the United States over Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) for beef and pork products. “Canada will request authorization from the WTO to impose over C$3 billion (US$2.4 billion) in retaliatory measures against the U.S., while Mexico will seek authorization for over US$653 million,” said the agricultural government representatives … Read More
Dairy Groups Against More Food Name Restrictions
The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USEC) and the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) jointly thanked the U.S. delegation to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Diplomatic Conference on the Lisbon Agreement for calling attention to the treaty changes that could impair the ability of companies worldwide to use generic food terms in export markets. … Read More
USMEF Co-hosts IMS Economics Workshop in Tokyo
In this week’s U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) audio report, we learn more about how USMEF is preparing to co-host the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) Economics Workshop May 11-13 in Tokyo. Joel Haggard, USMEF senior vice president for the Asia-Pacific, is one of the workshop’s featured speakers and provides insights into the event, which is held every two years. He … Read More
USMEF Says February Meat Exports Lower
The U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) has released stats on exports from February 2015. Numbers show exports are lower year-over-year, but there are signs of improvement. The complete release can be found here. While still impacted by severe congestion in the West Coast ports, February exports of U.S. beef, pork and lamb bounced back to some degree from the totals … Read More
Poultry Industry Supports TPA
As U-S trade representative Michael Froman appeared before congressional committees this week to stress the need for the president to be granted Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), poultry producers were talking trade issues in Atlanta at the IPPE. USA Poultry and Egg Export Council (USAPEEC) President Jim Sumner says TPA is critical to getting major trade agreements with Asia and Europe … Read More