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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, March 10, 2025
China will be huge for U.S. beef. That’s the conclusion of U.S. negotiators and the U.S. cattle industry, but it’s going to take a lot of work to get there and the Chinese will have to come through on major promises over the next two months that were made in the “phase one” deal that was signed last week in the White House.
A nondescript press release could prove to be a starting point for transformational change in how beef cattle are tracked through the United States, or it could serve as another instance where the status quo proved too difficult to change.
In Kansas, the cattle industry and its allies in state government and academia have teamed up to launch a new offensive – the Cattle Trace project – to achieve a truly comprehensive national cattle traceability system.
