someone tell me

[kato]

from Japantoday.com

Wednesday, September 1, 2004 at 03:39 JST
TOKYO — A group of legislators from the Democratic Party of Japan, the country's main opposition party, rapped U.S. measures against mad cow disease Tuesday as inadequate to ensure the safety of U.S. beef, whose import resumption Washington is seeking.

"Japan should not restart imports unless the United States consents to adopt blanket testing for all cows and remove certain dangerous body parts" believed to carry high concentrations of prions, the group said in a report. (Kyodo News

This is not an easy market to arm twist into taking anything on terms other than their own. The USDA is going to drag this out for a long long time.

[grassfarmer]

dsinclair, I looked back at RanchersOwn website and I see they now want $500 up front and the remaining $4500 PLUS INTEREST will be taken off the value of cows we send them. I'm wondering what rate of interest they are now asking for and why this wasn't in the earlier printed material.

[dsinclair]

grassfarmer, as far as I know the interest will be the going rate. The NGC will have to take a loan on your $4500, to cover it until it's paid up. So, I think that makes sense. It has been brought up at meetings we have attended. If you want more clarification, or information, I suggest you attend a meeting. There's nothing like getting it from the horse's mouth!! They are suppose to have some dates on the web site.