Canada Sees US Beef Market Opening Soon
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US feedlots and packers could import Canadian cattle within months now that new US rules aimed at guarding against mad cow disease are up for approval, Canadian Agriculture Minister Andy Mitchell said on Saturday.
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Canada is already positioned to benefit from an agreement US officials are touting as a breakthrough beef deal with Japan, says the Canadian Beef Export Federation.
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Canadian officials said Thursday they had detected a possible case of mad cow disease, just a day after the United States said it planned to reopen its border to Canadian beef.
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Leaders of Minnesota&#39;s beef industry are assuring the public that the meat supply is safe after federal officials announced that a second case of mad cow disease may have turned up in the United States.
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Only hours after the US Department of Agriculture announced plans to lift the ban on the importation of Canadian cattle and beef products, a Canadian agency said they were investigating a new suspected case of &#39;Mad Cow&#39; disease.
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Expressing confidence in the safety of Canadian beef, the Bush administration said Thursday it would stand by its decision to renew Canadian beef imports beginning in March despite a possible new case of mad cow disease.
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Japan's decision on reopening its market  to U.S. beef will not be affected by the U.S. decision to  reduce its mad cow testing program, although Tokyo still wants  Washington not to do so, Agriculture Minister Shoichi Nakagawa  said on Friday.
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US Department of Agriculture officials and Central Oregon ranchers said on Thursday that the nation&#39;s supply of beef is safe, despite news that a government screening process recently detected
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Canada has positioned itself ahead of the United States to regain share in the lucrative Japanese beef market, thanks to strict new rules aimed at preventing mad cow disease, Agriculture Minister Andy Mitchell said on Wednesday.
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If tests next week prove that the United States has its second case of mad cow disease, cattle industry sources are hoping the animal is an old dairy cow from Canada.
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Japan's lucrative market for U.S. beef, ruptured by mad cow disease worries, is likely to remain closed for the rest of this year, U.S. meat industry officials said on Thursday.
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EDMONTON (CP) - The push to convince the United States to reopen its border to live Canadian cattle shouldn't be affected by Monday's resignation of U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, industry leaders say.
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President Bush pledged on Tuesday to try to expedite the opening of US borders to Canadian beef as he sought to mend ties with Canada frayed by the Iraq
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Another indication of lacklustre job creation in the United States is likely to keep stock markets static this week, but the Canadian dollar could get a boost if the Bank of Canada decides to hike interest rates tomorrow.
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Canadian beef is on both the agenda and the dinner plate for tomorrow&#39;s summit between Paul Martin and George W. Bush. The Prime Minister will press the President to accelerate his government&#39;s
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Expressing confidence in the safety of Canadian beef, the Bush administration said Thursday it would stand by its decision to renew Canadian cattle imports beginning in March despite a possible new case of mad cow disease.
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The US cattle industry anxiously awaited federal test results, expected as early as Monday, that will determine if the United States has a second case of the deadly mad cow disease, industry officials said.