TheBeefSite Newsletter - 8 September 2010

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Wednesday 8th September 2010

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Welcome to this week's newsletter

Editorial: Ensuring Market Stability

The FAO has called for greater stability in global food markets.

An FAO official this week said that food commodities markets will remain more volatile in years ahead and the international community will need to develop appropriate ways of dealing with this.

Responding to questions concerning the current turbulence on international food markets, Hafez Ghanem, Assistant Director-General for Economic and Social Development, said the G20 could take the lead in devising measures to ensure greater market stability over the medium and long term.

In Australia, supermarket chain Coles is looking at selling hormone-free beef, in a bid to give customers what they believe to be the best quality fresh food.

This announcement has caused great concern to the Australian beef industry, who are keen to be part of any discussions on hormonal growth promotants.

Another blow has hit the Japanese livestock industry, after foot and mouth disease struck recently. 1,194 cows have died from heat-stroke and heat related issues, after one of the hottest summers.

Charlotte Johnston

This Week's Feature Articles

We have 4 new features this week:

XLVets Best Practice Articles: Liver Fluke In Cattle
Over the past years we have seen an alarming increased incidence of liver fluke. This has coincided with a greater geographic distribution beyond the traditional at risk, high rainfall areas, says Rod Welford, from XL Vets.

Cut Feed Costs With Co-Products And Constalk Residue
US - University of Illinois researchers recently discovered that feeding co-products and cornstalk residue in the winter can save cow-calf producers up to $1 per day per cow as compared to feeding hay.

Italy - Livestock Outlook 2010
Beef production and consumption held up in 2009 but are expected to fall to some extent in MY 2010, while both pork production and consumption increased slightly in MY 2009, according to Stefano Baldi in the latest GAIN report from USDA Foreign Agricultural Service.

Japan's Beef Market: US Outlook
Japan’s beef consumption is important to US agriculture. Beef eaten in Japan is either produced from Japanese cattle that are fed US feedstuffs or imported. A large share of imported beef historically has come from US cattle, according to the USDA's Economic Research Service.