Beef News
Cattle producers hope Japan opens market again
McGregor, who's chairman of the Iowa Cattlemens Beef Products Committee, says he thinks it'll take some time to recover the volume of sales to Japan, which was the largest buyer of US beef in 2003. It's not going to come back as quickly as it left, he says, saying farmers have lost billions of dollars the last two years because of the barrier to exports. McGregor says Iowa's fifth in the nation in cattle feeding, "and it's a very vital part of our economy in the state of Iowa."