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July 25 (Bloomberg) >> JBS Plans to Fund 4,000 Brazilian Feedlots to Speed Up Supply ; By Carlos Caminada and Flavia Lima
JBS SA, the world's biggest beef supplier, plans to finance as many as 4,000 Brazilian cattle producers to help them fatten calves faster in feedlots after supplies dwindled and prices surged. JBS aims to have as much as 350 million reais ($222 million) in outstanding loans by 2011, Jose Geraldo Dontal, the head of a new JBS finance unit, said in a Bloomberg Television interview. The loans will fund investments in feedlots, he said.
In Brazil, where most cattle are raised grazing in pastures, cattle prices jumped 80 percent in the past two years after so many heifers were slaughtered that the number of calves sent to abattoirs diminished. Loans from JBS will hasten the renewal of supplies because calves grow to slaughter weight four times faster in feedlots than by grazing in fields, Dontal said. ``By financing feedlots, we'll shorten the fattening time,'' said Dontal, who is chief executive officer of JBS Banco, the company's newly created banking unit, in Sao Paulo. He said the company expects to lend 100 million reais in the first year.
JBS will target its biggest cattle suppliers, which account for about 80 percent of its needs. The producers, which often have difficulty obtaining loans from banks, will be able to repay the debt with cattle, Dontal said. Brazilian ranchers usually confine cattle for three months so the animals will gain about 5 arrobas (165 pounds) and reach slaughter weight of 18 to 19 arrobas (285 kilograms), Dontal said. It takes a year of grazing for a typical calf to gain that much, he said. JBS expects about 60 percent of its cattle suppliers to be using feedlots in two years, up from about 40 percent today.
In the U.S., feedlots buy animals that weigh 500 to 800 pounds and fatten them on corn for about four to six months, until they weigh about 1,200 pounds (544 kilograms) and are sold to slaughterhouses.
To contact the reporter on this story: Carlos Caminada in Sao Paulo at ccaminada1@bloomberg.net; Flavia Lima in Sao Paulo at Flima1@bloomberg.net.
July 24, 2008 >> Ag firms harvest revenue growth as Dairy Farmers of America Inc. topped the top 150 private companies list with revenue of $11.1 billion in 2007, up from $7.5 billion the year before. The Kansas City-based dairy cooperative’s record revenue came, in no small part, from surging milk prices.
DFA members received an average price of $19.38 per hundredweight — literally 100 pounds of milk — last year. That’s up $6.30 a hundredweight from 2006.
The cooperative said it had record operating revenue in 2007 but recorded a net loss of $109.3 million because of one-time, non-cash charges associated with the closing of two cheese plants.
"As we’re looking in 2008, it's tight," said David Darr, vice president of sustainability and public affairs for DFA.
Darr said dairy farmers are working hard to keep pace with rising prices for inputs, such as feed corn, necessary to produce milk."The truth is they need milk prices to be at the levels they are right now because the cost structure is so high," he said.
July 22, 2008 >> "CLAL.IT Consulting" posts this "Dairy Industry Analysis & Price Comparison Analysis" between crude oil prices and whole milk powder and cheddar, and other pricing factors within and around the Dairy Sector of Western & Eastern Europe: Web site
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July 1, 2008 >> Quick Updates
World Dairy Summit – Mexico http://www.wds2008mexico.com/
EU dairy outlook defies supply and nutrition challenges http://foodproductiondaily.com/news/ng.asp?id=86196
ISTP Canada announces 10 Joint Science and Technology Initiatives Between Canadian and Indian Companies Valued at More than $17 Million. Note: "Rapid Diagnostics to improve Animal Health" In addition, is there an opportunity for CLGA members do engage in joint research with India - funded under this program and supportive of market development? http://www.istpcanada.ca/NewsEvents/PressReleases/India_Announcement.html
Developing world to become food commodity hub
By Jess Halliday
15-June-2008 - Global agriculture and trade for most commodities are set to centre on developing countries in the next ten years - a prediction that gives weight to food industry strategies to build a presence in emerging markets.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) made the forecast in its annual Agricultural Outlook for 2008 to 2018, which was released yesterday, in partnership with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
As food companies are extending their operations into developing countries, with China, India and Russia being amongst the favourites. While the rationale is to be closer to markets where consumer spending powder will likely mushroom, bringing with it a major shift in eating habits, companies are also likely to find themselves closer to raw material sources.
The outlook says the "the epicenter of global agriculture will more from the OECD countries, towards developing countries" in the next ten years. OECD countries include much of Western Europe, as well as the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Poland, Turkey Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada, Japan, Korea and Mexico.
Both consumption and production are growing faster in developing countries than in developed countries, for all commodities except wheat.
The outlook covers cereals, oilseed, sugar, meats, milk and dairy produce.
"By 2017, these countries are expected to dominate production and consumption of most commodities, with the exception of coarse grains, cheese, and skim-milk powder," it says.
The organizations say that, of developing countries, China and India will remain the growth leaders, in parallel with GDP growth as they become more integrated into global markets.
Demand for agricultural commodities is linked directly to population, and the fastest population growth is expected in Africa, with annual average growth of over 2 per cent.
In Europe, on the other hand, population is expected to stabilize.
The report expects there to be parallel shifts in trade, with developing countries importing more - but other developing and emerging countries are capturing an every larger share of the potential this offers to trade partners.
Grains
Following recent weather factors that have had a fierce impact on harvest, Australia is expected to resume its position of being the second biggest wheat exporter after the US.
Ukraine is also expected to increase its exports to coarse grains.
Demand for wheat will be fueled by South and East Asia, Nigeria and Egypt.
China is cited as a clear exception, since diets are shifting towards processed foods in keeping with income rises.
Trade-wise, Saudi Arabia recently opted to phase out subsidies for wheat, and exports are therefore expected to increase.
Beside this the outlook says it projects expanding exports from OECD countries, but "most of the growth in import demand will be satisfied through larger shipments from emerging and developing countries, particularly Ukraine and Argentina."
Rice
Rice production is expected to increase by around 10 per cent over the outlook period, mainly due to larger crops from Asian and South Asian countries.
However this looks to be a result of increased productivity, as rice growing area is set to decrease as land dedicated to rice growing comes under pressure from competition from other crops and uses.
Developed countries (EU and Japan) are also likely to plant less.
Rice will become even more important in the African diet, with per capita consumption to rise from 22 to 24kg over ten years.
Global rice trade will fall, says the outlook, as there is more self-sufficiency amongst producing countries.
Oilseed
Oilseed demand is driven largely by livestock production, since livestock are fed protein meal derived from oilseed. Biofuels are also a major factor in demand.
Oilseed consumption in developing countries will increase by some 50 per cent by 2017, compared to 2005-7 baseline. China and its livestock sector will account for around half of this growth, the outlook says.
The EU is likely to remain the biggest importer, but imports will fall somewhat as more of the protein meal used comes from domestically produced and crushed oilseeds - rapeseed meal in particular.
After the EU, China will become the second biggest oilseed importer, preferring, as it does, to crush seeds locally so as to benefit from the value-added potential of the resulting oils. However crushing industry will grow at a lower rate than in the previous decade because of falling consumption growth.
Argentina is said to be in a position to consolidate its position as a region hub for oilseed crushing.
Brazil is expected to increase its share of exports from 30 to 40 per cent over the decade.
Sugar
Brazil is anticipated to remain the world centre for sugar and ethanol production, and to be the centre for setting sugar prices.
In the EU, in the wake of sugar reform, production will decrease and imports rise - perhaps to a level where it becomes the world's biggest importer. Imports are to come, preferentially, from less developed countries.
Developing countries are accounting for almost all of the production and consumption increase, because of population increases and new ability to buy luxury foods as incomes increase.
Meat
Overall, meat production is expected to increase by an average of 2 per cent, but with great differences between regions.
In OECD countries it is expected to increase by half a per cent, but in non-OECD countries by around 2.5 per cent per year.
Investment, capacity, infrastructure improvements and new production methods are spurring growth, especially in China, Brazil and Argentina.
The US, Canada, Argentina, Australia and Brazil will remain dominant, as trade recovers from damaging disease outbreaks.
In terms of meat consumption, again developing countries are driving growth. They are said to account for a massive 80 per cent of growth increase, with Asia and the Pacific a major force.
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May 31, 2008 >> Milk strike spreads across Europe
30.05.2008 - 09:27 CET | By Leigh Phillips
A strike by dairy farmers in Germany is spreading across the European Union, with counterparts in Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and France joining in to put pressure on European supermarkets and corner stores.
The German farmers launched their industrial action on Tuesday (26 May) in protest at the low price they are paid by supermarkets.
The country's main dairy federation, the Association of German Dairy Farmers (BDM), said it expects shelves to begin to empty from late Thursday (29 May), with 95 percent of the group's members participating, according to Agence France Presse.
Instead of delivering milk to market, the farmers are pouring it on their fields or feeding it to calves, with German supermarkets reporting panic-buying by members of the public concerned over what to pour over muesli or spread on their toast.
Farmers across Europe have joined in the strike, with the Austrian dairy union calling on its members to cut supplies to dairies in half. Some 60 percent of Dutch farmers are fertilizing their fields with milk and manure.
Swiss producers have also pronounced in favour of the milk strike, with deliveries down sharply. "If the farmers don't defend themselves now, then when?" said Martin Haab, president of Big-M, the Swiss milk producers association, according to TSR.
Meanwhile in France, farmers have said they will use tractors to blockade dairies that attempt to send milk to Germany to make up for the shortfall
The farmers are demanding they be paid 43 cents a litre, instead of the current 28-34 cents a litre. Recent price hikes in petrol and feed have diminished their earnings at the same time as supermarkets have pushed milk prices down, they claim.
Although operating costs have climbed by eight percent in the last six months, the farmers' payments for milk has dropped by 30 percent over the same period.
US beef imports set to resume in South Korea but finding it in stores may prove difficult
30.may.08
International Herald Tribune
The Associated Press
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/30/business/AS-FIN-SKorea-US-Beef-Tough-Sell.php
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea was cited as saying it will start allowing American beef back into the country, defying weeks of public protests and fulfilling a pledge made to the United States, but will anyone be willing — or even able — to buy it?
Amid daily street demonstrations involving thousands of people, major supermarkets said Friday they have no immediate plans to sell U.S. beef despite expectations shipments will start passing inspections next week.
Protesters have been taking to the streets of central Seoul for weeks, calling for the government to scrap its agreement with Washington to resume imports, suspended for most of the past 4 1/2 years over fears of mad cow disease.
The government said Thursday it would go ahead with the plan after delaying its implementation for weeks. Hours later nearly 10,000 protesters marched to denounce the move.
Lotte Mart, a major discount department store and supermarket chain, cited the national mood for foregoing sales, stating, "We cannot ignore public sentiment."
Protesters claim the government is ignoring their worries about safety and accuse President Lee Myung-bak of being arrogant toward his own people while kowtowing to the United States.
The government has repeatedly said there is absolutely no reason to fear U.S. beef and that it has been deemed safe to consume by the Paris-based Organization for Animal Health.
76th Annual General Session
of the International Committee
of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE)
25 – 30 May 2008
Paris, May 30 2008 - Approximately 600 participants representing the 172 OIE Member Countries and Territories, intergovernmental (FAO, WHO, World Bank, WTO etc.), regional and national organizations took part in the 76 th Annual General Session of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE)
The Session was honoured by the presence of high-ranking authorities, including numerous Ministers of OIE Members.
Official OIE sanitary status recognition of Members
The International Committee approved the 2008 list of countries or zones that had applied for an official OIE recognition of their sanitary status concerning one or several of four priority diseases: bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), foot and mouth disease, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) and rinderpest.
"Applications are studied following a very democratic process that involves renowned international experts, the elected members of the OIE Scientific Commission for Animal Diseases and finally, possibility for all 172 Members Delegates to put all propositions in question," OIE Director General Dr Bernard Vallat reminded the members of the International Committee.
This year the OIE recognized a record number of sanitary statuses on BSE. Following the recognition of 30 Members this week, the OIE now recognizes 41 Members as having a "controlled risk" or a "negligible risk" status..
The OIE is the sole world organization to grant an official status on freedom from specified animal diseases including BSE.
Five Members or zones of Members were newly recognized as free of FMD with or without vaccination.
The OIE granted 13 new national free statuses on rinderpest. The organization reiterated the objective, shared with the FAO, to declare the world free of rinderpest in the short term.
Food security
The International Committee stressed the strong link existing between the fight against hunger around the world and the fight against animal diseases in particular developing countries and consequently between food security and animal health. A specific resolution was adopted.
The International Committee also reemphasized the importance of the OIE mandate relating to food safety at the production level.
More commitment from OIE Reference Laboratories and Members to the OFFLU network
Delegates adopted a resolution requiring Members reporting outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza to rapidly share biological material and data with the international scientific community. Members are encouraged to use the OIE/FAO OFFLU network as a way of generating and disseminating this information, thus allowing the early preparation of human vaccines.
The Session further insisted that it is mandatory for all OIE Reference Laboratories to gather, process, analyze and disseminate epidemiological data concerning the disease they are responsible for.
Global animal disease notification
The worldwide zoo sanitary situation, covering around 100 terrestrial and aquatic animal diseases, was examined in detail.
The Session highlighted that notification of disease outbreaks from Members has dramatically improved since the launch of the new online system WAHIS in 2006. To the benefit of the world epidemiological situation, Members assimilated the system and it meets all expectations regarding the swiftness, number and quality of notification reports.
The WAHID database now captures all the information provided by WAHIS and makes it accessible to everybody worldwide.
Improving of national Veterinary Services, expanding OIE scientific network and diagnostic kits certification
Evaluation missions using the Performance of Veterinary Services tool (PVS) were reported on during the meeting. The missions were so far conducted in 54 Members with the support of several international donors in order to improve animal health management worldwide.
The international Committee accredited the application of five new Collaborating Centres and eight Reference Laboratories, bringing the OIE global network of scientific expertise to a number of 208 worldwide. This network provides OIE Members all updated animal disease control methods permanently.
The International Committee noted that the interest in the OIE Twining Initiative concept of laboratories is growing from both developed countries and, in-transition and developing countries which can use this path to access the OIE network of excellence.
The Session validated the BioChek Avian Influenza Antibody and Prionics® Check Western (BSE) diagnostic kits . Both will be included to the official OIE assays register listed in the OIE Manual 2008.
Nanotechnologies are now subject to OIE standards, guidelines with an addition to the chapter on biotechnology of the OIE Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals : "Nanotechnologies in diagnosis and vaccine development".
Additions to the Terrestrial and Aquatic Animal Health Codes
Consistent with the framework of its usual standard-setting activities the Committee updated and adopted new international standards, aimed at providing better safeguards for the sanitary safety of world trade, as well as guidelines to better implement surveillance of animal diseases and zoonoses worldwide.
Significant standards were also adopted in the field of animal welfare, including a new scientific definition of animal welfare and new guidelines for aquatic animals.
Agreements
Cooperation agreements were adopted with the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), the International Air Transport Association ( IATA), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMOU).
Also, the OIE signed an agreement with the International Poultry Council (IPC) and with t he International Council for Laboratory Animal Science (ICLAS), the last covering further collaboration on common issues of interest related to the welfare of animals used for scientific research.
Technical items
Two technical items were presented and debated during the Session and gave rise to Resolutions passed by the International Committee.
- Participation of small farmers in animal health programs.
The role of small farmers in the surveillance and early detection of animal diseases is crucial. They must be trained so they can act as key partners of Veterinary Services.
- Implication of private standards in international trade of animals and animal products:
Delegates also tackled the problem of animal health and animal welfare standards established unilaterally by private companies without direct involvement of governments.
Discussions emphasized again that the World Trade Organization, under the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards, formally mandates the OIE as the reference organization responsible for establishing international standards relating to animal diseases, including zoonoses.
April 22, 2008 - Food Crisis Is Depicted As 'Silent Tsunami'
Sharp Price Hikes Leave Many Millions in Hunger
By Kevin Sullivan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, April 23, 2008; A01
LONDON, April 22 -- More than 100 million people are being driven deeper into poverty by a "silent tsunami" of sharply rising food prices, which have sparked riots around the world and threaten U.N.-backed feeding programs for 20 million children, the top U.N. food official said Tuesday.
"This is the new face of hunger -- the millions of people who were not in the urgent hunger category six months ago but now are," Josette Sheeran, executive director of the World Food Program (WFP), said at a London news conference. "The world's misery index is rising."
Prime Minister Gordon Brown, hosting Sheeran and other private and government experts at his 10 Downing Street offices, said the growing food crisis has pushed prices to their highest levels since 1945 and rivals the current global financial turmoil as a threat to world stability.
"Hunger is a moral challenge to each one of us as global citizens, but it is also a threat to the political and economic stability of poor nations around the world," Brown said, adding that 25,000 people a day are dying of conditions linked to hunger.
"With one child dying every five seconds from hunger-related causes, the time to act is now," Brown said, pledging $60 million in emergency aid to help the WFP feed the poor in Africa and Asia, where in some nations the prices of many food staples have doubled in the past six months.
Brown said the "vast" food crisis was threatening to reverse years of progress to create stronger middle classes around the world and lift millions of people out of poverty.
Prices for basic food supplies such as rice, wheat and corn have skyrocketed in recent months, driven by a complex set of factors including sharply rising fuel prices, droughts in key food-producing countries, ballooning demand in emerging nations such as China and India, and the diversion of some crops to produce biofuels.
Sheeran noted that the United States, which she said provides half of the world's food assistance, has pledged $200 million in emergency food aid and that Congress was considering an additional appropriation.
Holding up the kind of plastic cup that the WFP uses to feed millions of children, Sheeran told reporters that the price of a metric ton of rice in parts of Asia had risen from $460 to $1,000 in less than two months.
"People are simply being priced out of food markets," she said.
The WFP has budgeted $2.9 billion this year -- all from donor nations -- to conduct its feeding programs around the world, including large efforts in Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia and other nations that could not otherwise feed themselves.
Sheeran said soaring prices mean that the WFP needs an additional $755 million to meet its needs. That "food gap" jumped from $500 million just two months ago as prices keep rising, she said.
"We hope we have reached a plateau, but this is a rapidly evolving situation," she said, adding that the WFP was urgently seeking contributions to make up the difference as the situation becomes more dire in poor countries such as Bangladesh and Afghanistan that are heavily dependent on imported food.
Sheeran said the WFP's main focus was on the "ultra-poor," those who earn less than 50 cents a day. She said rising food prices meant millions of people earning less than $2 a day were giving up health care and education. Those living on less than $1 a day were giving up meat and vegetables, and those living on less than 50 cents were facing increasingly desperate hunger.
Hunger and anger have led to violence recently in Haiti, where food riots this month resulted in several deaths, as well as Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Egypt, Indonesia and Senegal. Argentina's attempt to control rising prices led to a strike by producers.
The WFP is already being forced to cut back on school feeding programs that serve 20 million children, Sheeran said. Without more emergency funding, she said, a feeding program in Cambodia would be eliminated and programs in places such as Kenya and Tajikistan would be cut in half.
"These are heartbreaking decisions to have to make," Sheeran said. "We need all the help we can get from the governments of the world who can afford to do so."
Sheeran said rising fuel and fertilizer prices were adding to the misery. She said she recently returned from a trip to Kenya's Rift Valley, where the cost of fertilizer has climbed 135 percent since December.
That increase, along with rising prices for seed and diesel, led farmers to plant only one-third the crops they planted last year -- a pattern being repeated around the world, she said.
"Farmers have no access to credit, so when prices go up, they can't afford to plant," she said, urging governments, particularly in developing nations, to invest more in programs to support domestic agriculture.
"I think much of the world is waking up to the fact that food doesn't spontaneously show up on grocery store shelves," she said.
In some parts of the world, Sheeran said, the WFP needs to provide food to people who have none. In other countries, she said, food is plentiful but prices have risen so much that people cannot afford it. She said the WFP is considering programs in those countries to provide cash assistance or emergency food vouchers.
Food experts have said such programs could help lower domestic food prices without hurting local farmers -- the kind of balance Sheeran said WFP officials are trying to strike as they deal with a crisis that has different faces in different parts of the world.
The increasing use of crops to produce biofuels has been criticized as contributing to food shortages. While Britain and the European Union have called for greater use of biofuels, Brown said Tuesday that "we need to look closely at the impact on food prices and the environment."
"If our U.K. review shows that we need to change our approach, we will also push for change in E.U. biofuels targets," he said.
For example, under a national agriculture development plan approved by the government in 2005, Viet Nam will, by 2010, have 35-40 million pigs, some 6.7 million bulls and cows, and 2.8-3 million buffaloes. Russia and other countries are developing similar Ag Development Projects on a National scale.
April 5, 2008
IFCN Dairy Research Centre releases its findings and Hypothesis for 2007 & results from it's 2007 Dairy Conference held in November of 2007. In short, the IFCN indicates that dairy farms will become larger and perhaps reach a normal size of 2,000 cows per farm unit. Today's Super dairies are small in numbers and will increase and change the face of how we milk cows; as today there is 152 million dairy farms with an average of 2.4 cows. Click here for the IFCN Workshop Presentation.
This is similar to the Agro Exports, greg Nolan model of Beef Production Models of 10 maternal beef farms feeding one centrally located Feedlot farm; as we see the World's demand for food increase and large production farms being designed and put into operation; these sophisticated Agri Production models will become the norm. Please contact Agro Exports Office, to find how we can assist you in understanding the Production models available for your production farms.
March 26, 27 & 28 2008
Ukrainian, Russian, Croatian visitors and buyers from Hungary visit more the " Canadian National Holstein Show & Sale" hosted by the HAC ( http://www.holstein.ca/ ) in London, Ontario in the Heart of the Canadian Dairy Industry.
More updates & News next week HAC site, click here for the 2008 National Holstein Convention & AGM. (
Program:
Wednesday, March 26
4:30 pm - Purina Showmanship (4-H), Western Fair Agriplex
6:30 pm - National Convention Sale , Western Fair Agriplex
Thursday, March 27
Ontario Spring Discovery Show, Western Fair Agriplex
Alternate Tour
Evening - President's Reception
Friday, March 28
All Day - Farm Tours / Holstein Canada National Office Tour
Evening - Master Breeder Awards Banquet
Saturday, March 29
10am-2pm - Annual General Meeting of Members & Guest Speaker
Agenda
Proposals of Amendment to the By-Laws
Evening - Grand Finale Banquet
For more information, contact
Liz Jones
RR #5, Ingersoll , ON NSC 3J8
519-424-3450, 519-424-3453 (fax)
lizjones@execulink.com
March 25, 2008
Leachman Cattle of Colorado held their 5 th annual Spring bull sale on March 25 th
Bull sale averages:
- 252 Black Stabilizers @ $3,458
- 103 Black Angus @ $3,521
- 31 Red Stabilizers @ $3,621
- 44 Red Angus @ $2,847
- 30 Charolais @ $2,858
- 460 Bulls overall @ $3,386
A record number of volume bull buyers came from across the western states including Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Nevada, and Montana. Large, profit oriented commercial ranches invested in genetics to make their operations more profitable. Active bidding came from the stands, the internet, sight unseen, and via the bidders conference call.
The high selling bull was Leachman Ramses G054T, Lot 277, for $14,000: 50% Semen share purchased by the syndicate of breeders: Summitcrest Farms, OH; 7L Farms, MS; Jorgenson Angus, SD; Green Garden Angus, KS; and ABS Global. Additional 10% semen share purchased by Tehama Angus, CA and Colorado State University, CO. He was a high feed efficiency bull as determined by individual feeding records and our Feed Efficiency EPDs. He is a son of CSU Ram Time out of a Retail Product daughter. He recorded 88 BW, 788 AWW, 1295 AYW, 5.8% IMF, 13.2 " REA, -3.2 Residual Feed Intake, 5.8 F/G index, and a -.49 Feed Efficiency EPD.
Congrats to Lee, Lisa, and Graham Leachman, Dallas & Mary Horton, all the staff at LCoC and the Horton Test Center, our industry supporters, and our valuable customers for making this one of their best bull sales ever!
March 20, 2008
Lee Leachman forwards his idealisms for Profitable Beef cattle selections. We post it here to assist our contacts in developing End Goals in Beef Production, which, surprising enough, is not necessarily driven by Input Costs must exceed Output Costs. Our idealisms here at Agro Exports are driven by "Genetics that Generate Profits" and we believe in 'Production Technologies" that start with Genetics that can meet the expected End Goals. We welcome your Angus Genetic enquiries. Click here for Lee's slide show. (Click to View Slide Show ) He can be contacted at the below contact info.
Lee Leachman, Manager
- Leachman Cattle of Colorado
- 5100 ECR 70 Wellington, CO 80549
- PH: (970) 568-3983
- FX: (970) 568-3988
- MB: (970) 219-8519
- www.leachman.com
March 18, 2008
Eastern European dairy outgrowing Western rivals, as recorded growth predictions for Eastern European Dairy operations, including Russian processor, outpace the West. Looking at milk imports as local supply cannot meet planned expansion.
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