News Update

News Update
Sept. 28, 2007

U.S. Beef on the Rise in S. Korea

The total volume of U.S. beef imports in South Korea has increased more than 10 times during the last two months, according to The Korea Times.

More than 13,000 tons of U.S. beef had been brought into the country as of Sept. 19, despite temporary bans on certain U.S. meatpackers due to mistakenly shipped bone-in products.

According to the article, South Korean officials are expected to eventually allow bone-in beef, even as early as this year.

Red River Angus Association to Host Field Day

Beef cattle selection will be the main topic at the Beef Field Day, Oct. 6, sponsored by the Red River Angus Association. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Pullen Angus, located seven miles north of Bowie, Texas, and one mile south of Bellevue, Texas, on Hwy. 287.

Live cattle demonstrations with expected progeny difference (EPD) information, herd health programs and developing heifers will be among the field day topics.

According to program organizers, the event is designed to help commercial and registered producers make practical decisions from all current data available to seedstock producers.

Organized in January 2005, the Red River Angus Association was formed by Angus breeders in northern Texas and southern Oklahoma to provide opportunities to promote its members’ and customers’ breeding programs through special sales for both registered and commercial cattle.

The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA), ADM-Moormans and Pfizer Animal Health will provide lunch and refreshments.

The meeting is free and open to all interested cattle producers.

More information is available by calling Pullen Angus at 940-841-1510, or visiting the Red River Angus Association web site, www.redriverangusassoc.com or Pullen Angus at www.pullenangus.com.

Kentucky Grazing Conference Coming in October

A good grazing program is vital to the success of livestock enterprises in Kentucky. This year’s Kentucky Grazing Conference is set to help producers hone their management skills.

Information on recovering from this year’s weather woes will kick off presentations at the conference sponsored by the University of Kentucky and the Kentucky Forage and Grasslands Council.

The conference, in its eighth year, will be Oct. 30 at the Western Kentucky University Expo Center in Bowling Green. Additional program topics will include: Does Grazing Method Matter?, Options for Summer Grazing, Techniques for Reducing MUD, Problems and Improving Pasture Abused Areas, and experiences with teff in Kentucky.

There will also be an overview of how the college and state work together to improve grazing. Educational programs will be conducted in the morning, with a business meeting and forage spokesman contest to take place after lunch.

Registration begins at 8 a.m. There is a $15 registration fee, which includes written materials, refreshments and lunch. There will also be exhibits and a silent auction. The student fee is $5. Preregistration is not necessary. A full conference schedule can be found at the UK forages web site, www.uky.edu/ag/forages.

— Release provided by the University of Kentucky.

— compiled by Crystal Albers, associate editor, Angus Productions Inc.