- Lam-nMur Farming. Saturday. April 23.1!)70
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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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’I hi United Stales, alieady tin
largest pioditcei .irid consumer
ol beef m the woild, hee.nne the
hugest importer as well, leaving
the United Kingdom in second
position followed by the Euro
pean Community
Japan, a small impoiler in 1960
turned into a majoi beef custo
mer, along with such countries
as Spam. Canada, Switzerland,
Giecse, and Sweden.
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.
Lancaster County has the thu d
largest number of sheep in the
state
Pennsylvania had been given a
scabies-free status by the USDA
in 1963, after a prolonged attack
on the pi oblem Reinfested flocks
appealed in seven counties two
years ago, as well as last year.
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led such foimulable discouraged. Yet the pressures
walls of lands, levies, to impoil aie still there.
tempt to
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