The days of Cheap imported beef are over?

nilhg

Interesting article over on Agrimoney.com, the jist of which is that rising costs and a strong local currency will keep beef prices out of Brasil high and that there is no obvious replacement for them as a high volume supplier of cheap beef to world markets.

Interesting times to come it seems.

reilig

Here's hoping!!

But how many times have we heard that before and then something comes along and causes a major crash - Foot & Mouth, BSE, etc.

JohnBoy

That's the thing about developing economies.

they develop.


I dont see brazil as being as serious a threat in the future, the question to me is who'll be next?

Realistically Africa is the only remaining truly low cost region left, but political instability seems to continue to rule out the more fertile parts of it.

Tora Bora

JohnBoy wrote: »

That's the thing about developing economies.

they develop.


I dont see brazil as being as serious a threat in the future, the question to me is who'll be next?

Realistically Africa is the only remaining truly low cost region left, but political instability seems to continue to rule out the more fertile parts of it.

Shure, we are now a developing economy ourselves :eek:

haybob

Mighty stuff altogether I can tell the wife to pack up the job so as I will be loaded !!!

To John boy our economy is neither developed or developing its just F'ed

JohnBoy

we were a developing economy, then we were developed for a while, now we're just broken