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China to drop longstanding ban on US beef imports
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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1365871" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>Depends how far down the road you look. Modern China doesn't like being behind the 8ball on anything. It will just be a matter of time before they develop their own beef industry, just as they have already been improving their dairy industry.</p><p>They've been importing good dairy genetics via Canada and Australia in the form of semen and embryos for years. </p><p></p><p>From a 2012 Global Business article:</p><p><em>Import bans prevent Chinese farmers from buying live cattle from the United States, so they are importing hundreds of thousands of embryos and vials of semen from beef and dairy cattle each year.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Fonterra of New Zealand, the world's largest dairy exporter, has taken to inseminating its dairy cows in China with semen from the United States because the "genetics tend to create more volume and more protein," said Peter Moore, chief operating officer of the company's international farming ventures.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Ronald Lemenager, a professor of animal sciences at Purdue University in Indiana, said: "When you have a nation's diet changing as rapidly as China's, the most efficient way to build up production is to improve your animal genetics. We have the genetics they want."</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1365871, member: 18945"] Depends how far down the road you look. Modern China doesn't like being behind the 8ball on anything. It will just be a matter of time before they develop their own beef industry, just as they have already been improving their dairy industry. They've been importing good dairy genetics via Canada and Australia in the form of semen and embryos for years. From a 2012 Global Business article: [i]Import bans prevent Chinese farmers from buying live cattle from the United States, so they are importing hundreds of thousands of embryos and vials of semen from beef and dairy cattle each year. Fonterra of New Zealand, the world’s largest dairy exporter, has taken to inseminating its dairy cows in China with semen from the United States because the “genetics tend to create more volume and more protein,” said Peter Moore, chief operating officer of the company’s international farming ventures. Ronald Lemenager, a professor of animal sciences at Purdue University in Indiana, said: “When you have a nation’s diet changing as rapidly as China’s, the most efficient way to build up production is to improve your animal genetics. We have the genetics they want.”[/i] [/QUOTE]
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