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PoultryCast 0279 Show Notes:

• A recent special series by the Wall Street Journal looks at America's potential and how international trading relationship will impact our future.  Today's podcast features John and Gloria Naisbitt from the "America, A Porfolio of Ideas" series.  Link to the features is available here.

US and Chinese trade agreements and their implementation are going to the World Trade Organization because the US believes China is unfairly using tactics to keep US poultry out of China.

“Let me be clear: the US does not arbitrarily seek disagreements with China,” said Ron Kirk, US trade representative, as he unveiled the grounds for the US action. “But we won’t negotiate indefinitely, because US farmers, ranchers, small business owners and workers can’t afford to wait when their exports are being blocked and American jobs are at stake.”

PoultryCast 0275 Show Notes:

• Purdue economist Dr. Chris Hurt joins us today to look at what's pushing feed grain prices and discusses the impact of recent economic uncertainty on U.S. ag exports.

PoultryCast 0263 Show Notes:

• U.S. Meat Export Federation President Phil Seng just returned from an extended stay in Japan and discusses the areas impacted by the recent natural disasters and the resulting impact on Japan's consumers and imports of U.S. agricultural products. 

PoultryCast 0261 Show Notes:

• Worldwide population trends and economic growth will significantly impact the future of animal agriculture as outlined in this presenting from the National Institute of Animal Agriculture annual conference by Dr. Douglas Southgate, Jr., Professor of Agricultural, Environmental, and Developmental Economics, The Ohio State University. 

PoultryCast 0200 Show Notes:

• Russia recently shut down imports of U.S. poultry products due to Chlorine residues that exceeds their regulatory guidelines.  We talked with representatives from the USA Poultry and Egg Export Council about the issue and what it will take to reach resolution.

PoultryCast 0150 Show Notes:

• Ag Economist Allen Featherstone looks at factors responsible for current economic scenario and discusses the impact he sees on agriculture at large

PoultryCast 0122 Show Notes:

• Banner Engineering offers wireless monitors for controllers and fluid flow measurement
• Traveling Russia and the Ukraine, Genesus Swine Genetics' Jim Long shares what he saw and what it means to North American protein producers

PoultryCast 0106 Show Notes:

• Conversation with U of IL's Darrell Good with an outlook for the 2008 corn crop and how it will be rationed
• John Reddington at the American Meat Institute connecting with this view on exports
• Re-sync with Brian Fairchild on heat and humidity

PoultryCast 0083 Show Notes:

• Chavez expropriates chicken shipment 'for the people'
• Taking a look at feedgrain demand and the turmoil in world markets with Mike Wooverton
• Rod Bain shares good news on expectations for poultry and pork demand and follows up with the news on naming terms 'naturally'
• What the Iowa State Diagnostic Lab was doing during the melamine story