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It is official, we have just confirmed our 12th reporting barn for the big fall run. We now blanket the great Northern beef belt from Motely, Minnesota to Torrington, Wyoming.
If the global beef market had a Facebook relationship status today, it would be, “It’s Complicated.” Welcome to this special edition of the Hot Barn Report.
Big breaking news from across the globe! China has immediately halted imports of Brazilian beef amid the discovery of a confirmed BSE case.
In a statement, the Brazilian Ag Defense agency said, “The symptomatology indicates that it is the atypical form of the disease, which appears spontaneously in nature, causing no risk of dissemination to the herd and to humans.”
The sick animal was on a property with 160 head of cattle in the southeast of the state. The site has been inspected and preventively interdicted, the agency added.
Samples have been sent to the World Organization for Animal Health lab in Alberta, Canada, to confirm whether it was the classic form of the disease or its “atypical” version.
In 2021, two cases of the disease triggered a suspension in beef exports to China that lasted more than three months.
In the United States, USDA suspended imports of all fresh beef from Brazil in 2017 because of recurring concerns about the safety of the products intended for sale in the U.S. That ban was lifted in 2020. Since that time, record beef imports from Brazil into the U.S. have created growing concerns from cattle organizations that have been calling for a ban on beef exports from Brazil, citing a food safety issue.
Last week a small handful of lawmakers were bringing this issue into the spotlight ahead of this BSE announcement. In an effort to support American ranchers and ensure the safety of American consumers, U.S. Senators Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Mike Rounds (R-SD) reintroduced their bipartisan bill to suspend Brazilian beef imports to the United States until experts can conduct a systemic review of the commodity’s impacts on food safety and animal health. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) is also a cosponsor. This legislation is supported by all three major cattle organizations.
This legislation would need even be needed if the USDA would exercise their authority to protect us, but since they are the same agency that oversees the misleading Product of USA label on beef, I’m guessing they are just gonna sit this one out. Call you members of Congress and urge them to join the Senators and make stand for the American cattle industry and consumer by co-sponsoring S. 480.
I find it interesting that a country that has no issue with open air meat markets where small animals are served ready to eat on sticks finds health concerns with imported beef from Brazil, yet here in the USA there seems to be little concern about importing Brazilian beef. It seems so obvious what course of action needs taken, yet to the powers that be, it must be complicated!
Let’s give a shoutout to these Diamond Dozen Hot Barns that power this program: Stockmens Livestock, Lemmon Livestock, North Platte Stockyards, St. Onge/Newell, Platte Livestock Market, Tri County Stockyards, Torrington Livestock, Creighton Livestock Market, Bassett Livestock Auction, Mobridge Livestock, Ogallala Livestock Auction Market, and Presho Livestock. Catch them all on CattleUSA.com.
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