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April 23.1!)70 34 World Beef Trade Grows in ’6os Foi Hu- woild’s beef imin .1 1 \ In the l.ili (in’s piodurtion again the past decade has been a pei md picked up .mil has meie.ised ;il of shook demand tuuvenh ns ~r .innu.il late of 3 4 pei eeiit ini’ pioduclion. a geneial in- since then cro.is in market puces, and tin- Meanwhile, demand for beef precedenled giowlh in tiade has continued to climb, icsull- For the futuie, theie aie some mg in light supplies and a gen qucstion maiks. but demand ic- eial inciease in mniket prices mains strong and fuilhei m.nket thioughout most of the world's growth is in piospcct. accoiding major commeicial maikets to the USDA’s Foreign Agnail- World tiade in beef—in spile ture Seivice of majoi detenenls almost In the fust few yeais of the doubled duung the 1960's and 1960’s beef pioduetion in the ma- closed in calendar year 1969 at jor impoiting and expoitmg a recoid level of almost six bil countnes incieased at the late of l.on pounds Highlighting the about five per cent a yeai, keep- pictuie weie these facts ing pace with the glowing de- Traditional exporters—Aigen- mand Bv the mid 60's, a decline in boosted then sales sharply, other production in the major expoit- countries, chiefly in Cential mi; countues held beef supplies Ameuca, became significant ex relat’vely constant for a time poiteis fast. are physically uniform to assure a steady broadcast pattern, chemically uniform to assure balanced plant feeding throughout the growing season. 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How long and at what rate this growth trend will continue is a matter for conjecture The im portant fact is that meat remains in strong demand both in the older markets of the world and m many of the newer ones, as well. In most countries, as in the United States, beef is a highly preferred food which people want to enjoy as often as they can Onlv a few countries the United States, Canada, 'Ugen Una. Austialia, New Zealand and South may be said to have tmlv sophisticated beef pi eduction industiies These aNo aie the count) ics of high pci c pita consumption In most of the icst of the woild beef is laigelv a bypio duct of the dan.v industiv This meins that local supplies aic usually quite limited Moieovei even tnose nation l , that aie making a dehbeiate at Sheep Scabies Alert The Depaitment of Agncultuie is calling on all commeicial sheep sheareis to leport any evi dence of scabies in flocks they clip. 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