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DJ Cargill''s Excel Limits Canadian-Origin Cattle Purchases



Agriculture Online

2:30 PM, August 25, 2006



KANSAS CITY (Dow Jones)--Cargill Inc.'s Excel Fresh Meats continues to buy

Canadian-origin cattle for slaughter, but it is limiting the number to better

accommodate certain marketing programs, said Mark Klein, public spokesman for

the company.



Klein's statement came in the wake of a letter circulating in the Plains

cattle feeding industry that says the company will stop buying Canadian-origin

cattle at all of its plants except Ft. Morgan, Colo., because of Export

Verification Program segregation problems.



Klein said the company isn't importing large numbers of slaughter cattle from

Canada because it has packing plants in that country and because exchange rates

make it harder to bring these cattle into the country directly for slaughter.



He said the notice about buying Canadian cattle was "related to a few small

programs, not to the overall buy."





-By Lester Aldrich, Dow Jones Newswires



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