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Cooperative Resources International (CRI) has entered an agreement with Lusogenes, a subsidiary of Portugal’s national cattle improvement organization, in support of their efforts to further enhance genetic improvement in Portuguese dairy and beef cattle.
CRI, together with French partner Amelis, will assist Lusogenes through delivery of genetics and technical consulting.
The campaign waged upon Beef Products Inc. this spring over the use of lean finely textured beef may be done. But the war against meat producers is anything but finished, said one BPI official.
The campaign waged upon Beef Products Inc. this spring over the use of lean finely textured beef may be done. But the war against meat producers is anything but finished, said one BPI official.
Chinese beef companies descended on the eastern Australian city of Rockhampton recently with an eye toward buying Australian cattle stations and meat processing plants.
The Chinese visitors are interested in acquiring bulls, cows and genetic material to improve their beef herds in China, and Zenghong Li, an investor from the Modern Agricultural Development Co. of Yunnan province, is looking to buy several cattle properties in northern Australia.
The Chinese delegation was joined by other cattlemen and agricultural investors from Paraguay, Poland, Argentina, the U.S. and Brazil exploring investment options in the booming Australian beef cattle industry.
Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series.
Most ranchers in the West are dependent, in one way or another, on federal and/or state grazing permits.
No one can deny the agricultural industry has certainly entered into a global market within the last decade. U.S. cattle genetics are shipping routinely to Russia and South America.
