US Appeals Court won't Rehear Cattle Case
October 14, 2005 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. ranchers group said on Friday it would continue its fight to ban imports of live Canadian cattle despite a decision by a federal appeals court refusing to rehear its lawsuit.

AMI Urges USDA to Permit Imports of Canadian Cattle 30 Months of Age and Older
July 29, 2005 - AMI today urged USDA to publish a proposed rule to permit the importation of cattle 30 months of age and older and beef products derived from such animals.

R-CALF seeks another hearing on Canadian beef
Canadian Press, September 10, 2005 - A group representing 18,000 American cattle producers has petitioned a U.S. court for a rehearing in a bid to close the border again to Canadian beef.

“Ticked at R-CALF? You’re not Alone”
AMI Guest Editorial, Cartoon Discuss Cost of Canadian Ban
AMI Guest Editorial, Cartoon Discuss Cost of Canadian Ban July 19, 2005 -- “Nearly 8,000 U.S. meatpacking jobs lost. Multiple factories closed for good, while others were forced to go dark for days because of insufficient cattle to process. Meat...

Federal Court Lifts Ban on Canadian Cattle. USDA Taking Immediate Steps to Restore Trade in “Days”
Washington, DC, July 15, 2005 - USDA officials are promising to move quickly to restore trade in cattle under 30 months of age with Canada following yesterday’s decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit that reversed a preliminary injunction blocking imports of Canadian cattle and some Canadian beef.

AMI Publishes Roll Call Ad to Highlight Need to Cease "Game Playing" on Cattle and Beef Trade with Canada
Washington, DC, July 11, 2005 – The American Meat Institute (AMI) today published an issue advertisement called “R-CALF-OPOLY” in Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill, to expose the games that are being played to prevent restoration of full beef and cattle trade with Canada.

Canadian Government Reallocates Funds for Cattle Sector
Winnipeg, MB, June 29, 2005 – A reallocation of funds from existing measures in order to support the transformation of the Canadian cattle industry into a profitable player in the domestic and international markets was announced by Canada's Agriculture Minister, Andy Mitchell in a press release Wednesday.

Beef ban runs out of shelf life
Continuing to ban importation of cattle and bone-in beef from Canada is an unwarranted obstacle that's harming the American meat-packing industry. .. If there was a genuine problem with the safety of Canadian beef, a ban would be quite in order. BSE, known as mad cow disease, decimated British and other ...Supporters of the ban would have us believe that the USDA, guardian of the food supply for a century, suddenly would put the American public at risk. We don't buy it. .

Reopen the northern border to cattle
A crisis has been gripping the American beef industry for two years now, although for the most part it seems to have escaped much notice among average people — other than that they have seen the price of beef rise in their neighborhood grocery stores. But this crisis — the closing of the U.S. border with Canada to live cattle imports — has begun to cost important jobs in many small towns, including one in Utah. It also is rapidly reaching the point where it could cause permanent harm to beef processors. The jobs that are disappearing may never come back.

U.S. cattle industry frets about new Canadian Slaughterhouses
While the United States keeps Canadian cows from crossing the border, Canada is busy expanding its ability to kill and process its own cattle, which many in the domestic industry believe could result in the closing of Northwest slaughterhouses.

No Longer Kindred Souls in the Saddle Mad Cow Disease Divides Canadian And U.S. Ranchers
LUNDBRECK, Alberta -- On opposite sides of the blue-cold Rocky Mountains, two men on horseback roam the grassy prairie each day, checking the cattle on their ranches.

Canada Frustrated by U.S. Cattle Ban
Canadian Ambassador Frank McKenna - on his first trip to Colorado - met with political and business leaders on Wednesday, reiterating the northern neighbor's request to allow its live cattle to enter the United States.

Canadian Beef Industry Issues Threat to U.S. Over Meat Processing
OMAHA (DTN) -- Good Morning Ontario reported that Canada's beef industry has warned the US that it will accelerate the expansion of its meat processing capacity because it can no longer wait for the US-Canadian border to re-open to imports into the US of live Canadian cattle, says a story in the Britain's Financial Times.

Canadian PM: US Packers Will Pay A Price for Mad Cow Border Closures
GATINEAU, Quebec - American meat packers will pay a long-term price over policies that forced the closure of the border to Canadian beef, Prime Minister Paul Martin warned Monday.

Canada Forecast to Export Record Beef Despite BSE
Beef exports by major beef exporting countries are forecast to increase 8 percent to almost 7 million tons in 2005. Changes in status of major beef exporters due to animal diseases, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and foot and mouth disease (FMD), have shifted beef trading patterns in the last few years and those patterns are expected to continue in 2005.

Ban on Canadian Cattle Could Backfire on U.S.
The continued ban on live Canadian cattle imported into the U.S. could come back to haunt American producers, according to Jamie Willrett. A cattleman from Malta who is the International Markets Committee Chairman for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), Willrett said that all the ban is doing is forcing Canada to build up its own slaughter capacity.