Global Beef Trade: Effects of Measures on U.S. Beef Exports
How have market access barriers affected U.S. beef producers and exporters? This report published by the United States International Trade Commisssionan provides an overview of U.S. and global beef markets, with information on animal health, food safety...

Mexico Livestock and Products Annual Report 2008
By USDA, Foreign Agricultural Service - This article provides the cattle industry data from the USDA FAS Livestock and Products Annual 2008 report for Mexico. A link to the full report is also provided. The full report includes all the tabular data, which...

US Beef and Dairy Outlook Report - October 2008
By U.S.D.A, Economic Research Service - This article is an extract from the October 2008: Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Outlook Report.

Country of Origin: What's in a Label?
Country of Origin Labelling is the next step to an entirely open marketplace for the US. In an ideal supermarket, consumers can understand as well as see the product that they are purchasing and they can monitor the system of production which has brought...

World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates
US red meat production is expected to continue to be strong in 2008 as higher broiler and turkey output offsets lower pork output according to the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates from the USDA.

Traceability and Quality to Meet Consumer Expectations
Consumers are expecting more from the products they eat than they used to, writes TheCattleSite Senior Editor, Chris Harris.

Ukraine: Insufficient Production and Insignificant Imports
Declining Ukrainian livestock production led to a significant deficit of beef and pork on the market in 2008 says a United States Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service, GAIN report, prepared by Alexander Tarassevych, an Agricultural...

Impact of Biofuels on Meat Production
The biofuels industry is a policy driven industry that is influenced by the need to reduce the use of energy resources, agricultural support and environmental issues, writes Chris Harris Senior Editor, TheCattleSite.

USDA Livestock and Products Annual Reports 2008
This article provides the beef and cattle industry data from the USDA FAS Livestock and Products Annual 2008 reports. This week our new report is from Mexico.

Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook
By U.S.D.A, Economic Research Service - This article is an extract from the September 2008: Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Outlook Report.

Emerging Animal Diseases and International Trade
Infectious animal and zoonotic diseases are becoming more and more important in the changing farming and trading systems of the industrialised and developing world, writes TheCattleSite Senior Editor, Chris Harris.

Argentina Livestock and Products Annual 2008
By USDA, Foreign Agricultural Service - This article provides the cattle industry data from the USDA FAS Livestock and Products Annual 2008 report for Argentina. A link to the full report is also provided. The full report includes all the tabular data,...

Understanding Meat Exports
Exports of livestock and poultry products have allowed US producers to grow their businesses beyond what was possible if only serving the US market. John Lawrence, Iowa Farm Outlook, Department of Economics, explains how this has happened. This article...

US Feed Outlook
A fall in US feed grain production this month largely caused by dry weather has only partially been offset by increases in foreign production, according to the US Feed Outlook by the Economic Research Service of the USDA.

Market Definitions of Alternative Production Systems
By Kerry Smith Livestock and Meat Marketing Specialist, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Washington D.C. This publication is part of the University of Florida IFAS, 2008 Beef Cattle Short Course Proceedings. To...