Australia’s beef industry is increasing its sales to the
United States and probably to Canada.
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource
Economics and Sciences says the United States will buy 35 percent
more beef and veal from Australia in 2014-15, or a total of 360,00 tonnes.
That would amount to the highest volume since
2004-2005 and comes as the U.S. and Canadian cattle herds decline to the lowest
levels in decades.
The U.S. took about 35 percent of Australia’s
beef and veal exports in the first four months of 2014-2015, compared with 19
percent in the year-earlier period.
The Aussie beef apparently involves more greenhouse gas emissions than Canadian beef, so maybe there ought to be an environmental tax on these imports. (see following story).
