New Doors Open For U.S.
Certified Angus Beef In Canada
WOOSTER, Ohio Certi
fied Angus Beef (CAB) LLC, a
subsidiary of the American
Angus Association, recently li
censed plants for both beef har
vest and fabrication to produce
Certified Angus Beef™ (CAB)
product in Canada, according to
company president Jim
Riemann. He cited growing
demand and licensee interest on
both sides of the border.
Canadian demand has long
been a key to the success of
CAB’s international division,
and licensees in Canada last
year sold 15 million pounds of
Certified Angus Beef™ product,
ranking second only to Japan in
overall sales.
Moreover, many Canadian
foodservice and retail licensees
say they could double sales if
this world-leading beef brand
were processed in Canada. It’s
already produced there but tra
ditionally Canadian Angus-type
carcasses were shipped to U.S.
locations for U.S. Department of
Agriculture grading and certifi
cation as CAB product.
Then, some of those millions
of pounds of branded CAB
product have been exported and
trucked back to Canada along
with mostly U.S.-produced
product. Not only has this been
inefficient for packers, it has
also increased the number of
trucks bringing Canadian beef
into the U.S. often a point of
contention with Northern U.S.
producers.
Some processing firms in
Canada had been identifying
Angus and Angus-type cattle for
CAB for some time, Riemann
explains. These and additional
firms representing more than 65
percent of Canadian slaughter
capacity have expressed a strong
interest in being able to fabricate
CAB products in their Canadian
plants.
The American Angus Associ
ation and CAB boards of produ
cer-directors last fall voted for
exploring these greater efficien
cies in Canadian licensing. The
demand for Certified Angus
Beer - product has outstripped
available supplies for most of
CAB’s 22-year history.
Last year, the CAB supply de
velopment effort shifted into
high gear, launching a feedlot li
censing program that now has
50 feedlots in 14 states, with
600,000-head current capacity.
Meanwhile, producer premiums
for achieving CAB acceptance
continue to rise, and the genetic
tools to get there are becoming
sharper and sharper.
The move to expand in
Canada should help ensure a
continued robust growth in
demand for the jump-started
supply, and that is a key to
garnering producer premiums
as a reward for hitting the CAB
target. This new opportunity is
expected to increase demand on
both sides of the border for
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The total Canadian beef herd
is about 10 percent of the U.S.
beef herd, and about 15 percent
of the Canadian herd is Angus
or Angus-type. Some 400,000 of
Canada’s 2.7 million annual fed
beef slaughter could meet the
basic live specifications for Cer
tified Angus Beer" product. But
since there is no CAB program
in Canada, many of those cattle
had been entering the U.S.
If 15 percent of carcasses
from this black-hided subset of
cattle meet specifications for
CAB, about 7.3 million pounds
per year of CAB products would
be produced by the Alberta
plants. Canadian retail and
foodservice licensees currently
market a little over 15 million
pounds of CAB products yearly.
By comparison, the overall CAB
program markets about 570 mil
lion pounds of products yearly.
The single largest CAB retail
licensee north of the border,
Overwaitea Stores (81 locations
and growing across western
Canada) plans to more than
double sales if the CAB product
can be of Canadian origin.
With the better service af
forded by locally licensed plants,
other Canadian retail and food
service licensees expressed simi
lar interest. Canadian demand
for locally-produced CAB prod
uct is expected to cover the in
creased supply. These licensees
tend to prefer marketing Cana
dian-produced beef without the
import documentation and cur
rency value differences. Yet they
understand that the Canadian
produced supply would not be
adequate to meet their needs
and they would continue buying
U.S.-produced CAB products as
demand grows.
“There is a perceived differ
ence in the eyes of some of our
Canadian customers that U.S.
beef is somehow different and
poorer than Canadian beef,”
says Danny Ransom, Intercity
Packers, Vancouver, British Co
lumbia. “There are also custom
ers who won’t buy Certified
Angus Beer - because it is not
Canadian.
“Although we know that
North American beef produc
tion is borderless, this change
will give our customers the
option of buying a great product
Certified Angus Beef™
from their preferred country of
origin,” Ransom explains. “This
change will also help in the over
all availability of Certified
Angus Beer", which is very posi
tive.”
The amount of U.S-produced
product shipped to Canada
would be affected very little, but
has much potential for growth,
says Riemann. In the near term,
there are several positive aspects
that should reduce both the
import of Angus-type live cattle
and curtail the practice of ship
ping Angus-type carcasses into
the U.S. for grading and certifi
cation for CAB.
Maintaining
Integrity
CAB is coordinating with the
Canadian Beef Grading Agency
(CBGA) the development of
procedures to work with packers
for producing and protecting the
integrity of branded products
from steer and heifer carcasses.
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