http://laprensa-sandiego.org/stories/cattle-credit-and-consumer-demand/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:07:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://laprensa-sandiego.org/stories/cattle-credit-and-consumer-demand/comment-page-1/#comment-375 Yucatan Living - Yucatan News: New Orleans Sister City Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:24:43 +0000 http://strongByKentPaterson/strongFronteraNorteSur BroughttotheNewWorldintheSpanishconquest,cattlesoonbecameanemblematicfixtureofMexicanculture.Thebullfight,tradefairs,cowboyattireandnationalcuisineallembracethebodyand#comment-375 [...] Feed Lots and Beef Processors Needed in Yucatan! Did you know? When you buy beef in Yucatan, there is a very good chance that it came from the U.S. We have just discovered that there are no feed lots or major beef processors in the State of Yucatan. As a result, Yucatan sends approximately 2,000 young cattle north to Tamaulipas each month and imports the beef we eat! Our cattlemen say that, if we had feed lots, we could feed all of Yucatan and Quintana Roo, including the tourist zone in Q.R. Instead, we produce raw materials (young cattle) for consumption in other places, and import basic commodities for our own people. This is not helped by NAFTA and the current dumping of American beef in Mexico. Before the recession, the U.S. was exporting 400,000 metric tons of beef to Mexico per year and the recession barely slowed them down by only 21%. Yucateco cattlemen, without subsidies and without fair credit, cannot compete and are losing ground every day. SAGARPA is trying to organize all of Mexico’s beef producers but we are especially concerned about Yucatan. If any of our readers are cattlemen and can see an opportunity here, please let us know and we will do what we can to help. Read more on this story HERE. [...] [...] Feed Lots and Beef Processors Needed in Yucatan! Did you know? When you buy beef in Yucatan, there is a very good chance that it came from the U.S. We have just discovered that there are no feed lots or major beef processors in the State of Yucatan. As a result, Yucatan sends approximately 2,000 young cattle north to Tamaulipas each month and imports the beef we eat! Our cattlemen say that, if we had feed lots, we could feed all of Yucatan and Quintana Roo, including the tourist zone in Q.R. Instead, we produce raw materials (young cattle) for consumption in other places, and import basic commodities for our own people. This is not helped by NAFTA and the current dumping of American beef in Mexico. Before the recession, the U.S. was exporting 400,000 metric tons of beef to Mexico per year and the recession barely slowed them down by only 21%. Yucateco cattlemen, without subsidies and without fair credit, cannot compete and are losing ground every day. SAGARPA is trying to organize all of Mexico’s beef producers but we are especially concerned about Yucatan. If any of our readers are cattlemen and can see an opportunity here, please let us know and we will do what we can to help. Read more on this story HERE. [...]

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