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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