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Akaushi Cattle- Bill Fielding Describes F1 Crosses that Yield Better, Grade Better and Cost Less to Feed.

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:34:35 CDT

We wrap up our four part look at Akaushi Cattle as described to us in detail by the CEO of Heartbrand Beef, Bill Fielding. Fielding is convinced that this breed of cattle from Japan offers a ton of benefits for the US cattle industry.


Fielding tells us that he thinks the beef industry needs to wake up and start working to figure out how to produce a healthier product. He chides the NCBA for not having a resolution on the books that says something like "We will change breeding to produce a healthier end product for the consumer." He claims that Akaushi cattle have the genetics to deliver on that type of direction.


We also talk in this concluding part four of our four part Beef Buzz look at this Japanese cattle breed about the economic benefits for cattle producers. Fielding points to a recent set of F1 steers that were fed in the southern plains and graded better and had a lower cost of gain than your typical set of steers we find today in our US cattle herd.


In 1994 due to a loophole in the trade Act of 1992 between the United States and Japan, a small nucleus of Akaushi cows and bulls were brought to the United States in a specially equipped Boeing 747. Today, Akaushi genetics in the US are controlled by a group of Texans under the name HeartBrand Beef, Inc.


Click here for the HeartBrand Beef website to learn more about their marketing efforts.


A Breed Association has now been formed here in North America for these animals- click here for the website they have established.


Besides today's part four in our Beef Buzz programs- we also have the full conversation with Fielding now posted on our website- it's an Ag Perspectives Podcast with him. Click here for the Podcast and our complete 13 minute interview with Bill Fielding on Akaushi cattle.


The Beef Buzz is a regular feature heard on radio stations around the state on the Radio Oklahoma Network- but is also a regular audio feature found on this website as well. Click on the listen bar below for today's show- and check out our archives for older Beef Buzz shows covering the gamut of the beef cattle industry today.

   
   

Ron Hays Beef Buzzes with the CEO of Heartbrand Beef, Bill Fielding. right-click to download mp3

 

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