Introduction
Indonesia is now experiencing a bonus demographic population characterized by a growing middle class. This phenomenon has caused increasing demand for beef, where more than 98% of beef cattle production is managed by smallholder farmers. The national policy has been focused on...
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ABSTRACT
The livestock producers in Japan continued to be exposed to the wave of the free trade such as TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) and EPA (Economic Partnership Agreement).
In the past, livestock producers in Japan was exposed to the competition against the low priced imported beef...
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Yoshihisa Godo,
Professor, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
There are nearly 60,000 breeders of beef cattle in Japan1. They play an essential role in the meat industry and create important job opportunities in rural areas. Most cattle breeders are small-sized family...
While markets like Indonesia and Vietnam routinely command the headlines over Australia’s live cattle export trade, Australian-bred Wagyu feeder cattle continue to play a significant part within Japan’s beef supply chain.
Typically there are ten consignments of Australian feeder made each year using the Angus Express vessel out of Port of Brisbane, mostly F1 Wagyu x Angus, but also including some Fullblood and Purebred Wagyu. Exporters typically share each shipment, including Edwards Livestock, and consignments from Austrex and Otway.
Most of the Australian feeders are exported at around ten months of age, and slaughtered at 28-30 months after 15 months on feed. Imported Australian feeder cattle are widely dispersed across Japan, from around Osaka all the way to the far south around Kagoshima, and can see everything from snow to 40-degree heat in the same year.
Longer term, volumes have averaged around 15,800 head annually, however numbers have declined sharply in the past 12 months with only about 9000 likely to be shipped for 2022.
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