Author: Heather Tenhoff Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The beef industry is a very important in the food sector of agriculture and over the past two decades the United States beef industry has faced many challenges. Over time the distribution of beef exports have changed due to food safety issues and government policies, not just in the U.S., but on a global scale forcing U.S. beef producers to diversify their export outputs to other countries that were not previously strong leaders in the export business. The U.S. must be strategic in their production decisions in order to continue to compete on a global level to avoid significant loss during adverse conditions. One of the major challenges that the U.S. industry has faced is the discovery of BSE in late 2003 in the state of Washington, which led to the closing of many borders to countries who had a significant impact on the beef industry in the U.S. Since U.S. beef is highly regarded by consumers for its quality worldwide, it is important to understand what changes have taken place in the past to have a full understanding of what changes need to be made in the future. The objective of this thesis is to look at how the distribution of the value, volume and price of U.S. beef exports have changed over the past two decades. By looking at how this has changed we will be able to see what countries are emerging as important customers and how others have declined. This is extremely important since some of the major importing countries have changed or put restrictions on the U.S. beef industry over the past two decades and the industry needs to understand these changes so that they can remain strong in the export sector. By analyzing the global trends of U.S. beef exports by value, volume and price across principal regions of the world, research will show us how to change for future changes. By assessing the effect of the discovery of BSE in the U.S on changes in the distribution of beef exports across the global regions, research will show who emerged when other countries declined. By using this research, the foregoing results will be helpful to inform the industry on what export market strategy can be developed for the U.S. beef industry. The results suggest that BSE had some negative effect on the U.S. beef industry in terms of the value and volume but did not have an impact on the price per pound of beef. Some regions had a larger impact than others when BSE was discovered, such as East Asia, but during this other regions, such as North America, came through and became the leaders in exports for U.S. beef. While there was some growth from the Rest of the World, there was not enough of an impact to compete with the foregoing countries.
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org. ISBN: 9251346089 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 337
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The Agricultural Outlook 2021-2030 is a collaborative effort of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. It brings together the commodity, policy and country expertise of both organisations as well as input from collaborating member countries to provide an annual assessment of the prospects for the coming decade of national, regional and global agricultural commodity markets. The publication consists of 11 Chapters; Chapter 1 covers agricultural and food markets; Chapter 2 provides regional outlooks and the remaining chapters are dedicated to individual commodities.
Author: Quevedo Martin Morgan Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780260673381 Category : Languages : en Pages : 38
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Excerpt from The Beef Cattle Industries of Central America and Panama The central American countries and Panama have enjoyed a rapid rate of economic growth during the past 10 years. Although in percentage terms industry has probably shown the greater increase, most of the growth in gross national product has been derived from expanded production of agricultural commodities. Nonetheless, the economies of these countries still suffer from the weakness of over dependence on one or two export products. They are particularly vulnerable when one considers that in almost every instance their leading dollar exchange earners (coffee and cotton in Guatemala and Nicaragua, coffee and bananas in Costa Rica and Honduras, and bananas in Panama) are products subject to surplus accumulation and severe price fluctuations in world markets. Aware of their vulnerable position, the governments and private sectors of these countries, assisted by technical missions from international organizations and the us. Agency for International Development (aid), among others, have for the past several years sought to bolster their economies by encouraging increased self-sufficiency in food production and the development of new export lines to provide the foreign exchange necessary to pay for essential imports. Much of their attention has been centered on the livestock industry, which has played a traditional, though relatively minor, role in Central America and Panama since the colonial period. The objective of this report is to examine the factors associated with the rising trend in beef produc tion in recent years and assess future prospects. Hopefully, answers or reasoned judgments can be made in response to some of the perplexing questions concerning the beef cattle industry in Central America and Panama. Has the gain in productivity in the industry been as rapid as the expansion in slaughter operations; or, has the increase in numbers of cattle slaughterings been achieved partly in response to the construction of excess slaughter capacity at the expense of future production? What has been-the effect of the campaign to expand beef exports on the availability of supplies for the domestic market? What are the prospects for production, domestic consumption, and exports over the next 7 years? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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