Friday, July 13, 2012

West meets East. It is a very different story than Russians usually read. Nice.

Rancher Anthony Stidham

Miratorg Agribusiness Holding via Bloomberg

Rancher Anthony Stidham, seen here, said, “There’s no place in the U.S., Australia or anywhere in the world that will have cattle as good as what they are putting together here.”
A three year contract that ends in 2014 to make Russian beef the best in the world. I'll be darn. Medvedev. 
I sincerely hope this program is very successful for Russians. They deserve to have good food products within their country. It is a sovereign issue. A fresh start for healthy beef and no chance of prions. In three years there should be two new generations on the ground. It should be easy to tell the success of the program by then.
...In Russia’s southern republic of Bryansk, (click title to entry - thank you) which borders Ukraine and Belarus some 200 miles to the southwest of Moscow, the country’s biggest meat importer, Miratorg Agribusiness Holding,has so far launched 16 open range cattle ranches. By the end of 2014, the company plans to expand the number of ranches to 33 with an overall stock of 250,000 Aberdeen Angus, which is considered by many to be the best beef breed....