Kazakhstan sells 20 tons of beef to China

[Recursion]

That's obviously small potatoes in the global market, but this is an ominous development for US ranchers as China continues to book alternative sources.

https://astanatimes.com/2019/08/aktobe-region-exports-more-than-20-tonnes-beef-to-china-for-first-time/

Rural cooperatives with experience in cattle maintenance will be able to get the AkTep acquired cattle for leasing. On average, one cooperative consisting of five small farms should get approximately 1,000 cattle.

This will create pedigree farms in the region that will supply high-quality beef cattle to the feedlot and meat processing plant year-round without capital investments from AkTep.

AkTep has been ACC’s client for three years. During this period, the credit corporation financed the purchase of more than 13,000 breeding stock. This year alone, the company purchased more than 5,000 heads of pedigree cattle from Australia, the United States and Russia. The project is expected to increase the breeding stock of beef cattle in the Aktobe and West Kazakhstan regions.

ACC implements the state policy on the affordable lending system formation that should stimulate the development of competitive entrepreneurship in the countryside. The corporation is a part of KazAgro Holding. It has 16 branches across Kazakhstan and one representative office. The loan portfolio of the corporation is 372 billion tenge (US$960.34 million).

[roamer65]

1. SCO getting more powerful.

Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

China is going to give SCO countries first chance at any deals, then it will go to Brazil, Argentina, Canada and Australia next.

[Joe941]

2. That's 30 or 40 cattle.

[Recursion]

3. And last year it was zero

This is a test run

[Kali]

4. as beef it is more like 80 to 100

but yeah...

[Recursion]

5. Right, *this* shipment is not important

But the fact that the business contacts are being made is

[Kali]

6. Australia is probably a bigger threat, but yeah

the orange dipshit is fucking up American ag (and everything else) big time.