Mexico Open for Fed Cattle

After Nearly 12-Year Ban, Feeders Can Send Slaughter Cattle South

Chris Clayton
By  Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
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Starting immediately, U.S. cattle producers can now export fed cattle to Mexico for slaughter, USDA announced Friday. This could help feeders such as this one and others in Brawley, California, that saw their packing plant close a year ago. (DTN file photo by Chris Clayton)
Starting immediately, U.S. cattle producers can now export fed cattle to Mexico for slaughter, USDA announced Friday. This could help feeders such as this one and others in Brawley, California, that saw their packing plant close a year ago. (DTN file photo by Chris Clayton)
U.S. cattle producers can now export fed cattle to Mexico for slaughter starting immediately, according to USDA. Mexico had closed the border to U.S. slaughter cattle ever since the first U.S. bovine spongiform encephalopathy case in 2003.

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Chris Clayton

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