Meat health protocols are to be discussed when a Chinese delegation meets with officials from the Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA) and the National Institute of Food and Drug Monitoring (INVIMA).

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Obama calls for a ‘constructive’ future relationship with Venezuela, which will never happen while the CIA pull his strings.

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Government concerns are mounting around news of cattle smugglers bringing animals into Colombia over the over the Venezuelan border.

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The minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Juan Camilo Restrepo Salazar has called attention to excessive dairy product imports signed under trade agreements by Colombia with several countries.

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Colombia has a strong economy that has been growing over the last decade, and even though global commodity prices are higher, Colombia is still a major grain importer because its economy is growing and its currency is strong, said Jaime Rueda, CEO of Escala, a poultry company, at the Export Exchange 2012 last week.

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Organizations representing the US and Colombian poultry industries have announced the first quota auction for sales of US chicken leg quarters to Colombia as part of the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.

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Avidesa Mac Pollo SA, the top branded chicken company in Colombia, won the International Poultry Council’s Branded Marketing Award for 2012 for its ongoing advertising and promotional campaign that has kept the brand top-of-mind among Colombian consumers.

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Representatives from 19 North and Latin American countries are meeting this week with the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Pereira, Colombia, ElComercio.com reports.

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The event was the Second Annual Latin American Product Showcase, organized by the US Meat Export Federation (USMEF) with funding support provided by the USDA Market Access Program (MAP), the Nebraska Beef Council, the Pork Checkoff and the Illinois Soybean Association.

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Farmers in Aracua, Colombia are being urged to apply rigorous sanitary measures and control the smuggling of cattle from Venezuela to prevent foot and mouth disease (FMD) entering the country.

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Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Colombia, Juan Camilo Restrepo Salazar, said the sanitary and phytosanitary agreement signed with the Government of China has opened possibilities for exports of agricultural products and livestock, including meat and poultry.

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With free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations underway between the two countries, Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo Salazar said that he would look to protect Columbian agriculture.

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US grain farmers furious with Argentina and Canada advance in the Colombia market Argentina has rapidly displaced the US as the main supplier to Colombia of corn and in near future wheat, with volumes soaring from 99.000 tons in 2007 to over 2.2 million tons currently, points out Agrimoney.

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United States industry and agriculture lobbies are again advocating forcefully before Congress on the pending free trade agreement with Colombia claiming the delay is costing market share to a more aggressive Mercosur.

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Colombia is in various stages of negotiation on Free Trade Agreements with several countries, including the United States. Colombia's FTA with Switzerland will enter into force on 1 July 2011 and Colombia also expects to enter into an FTA with Canada by 1 July 2011. There is a pending FTA with the European Union; Colombia and the EU signed the final texts on 25 March 2011 and now must wait for the final process of translation and official approval of the agreement.

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Colombia plans to nearly double agricultural land growing crops for food and biofuel, part of a new investment boom in the country as violence ebbs from a decades-long internal conflict fueled by drug profits.

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En Bogotá, D.C.. Colombia, con el inicio de la semana se reanudó el beneficio de ganado suspendido por el asueto pascual, y el lunes 25 de abril de 2011, en el principal mercado del Frigorífico Guadalupe, los precios promedio de novillos gordos se ubicaron entre 1,68 y 1,85 US$/kg en pie (3.000 y 3.300 $/kg en pie), mientras que los toros gordos promediaron 1,54 US$/kg en pie. 2.750 $/kg en pie.

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Desde Bogotá, el Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural informa este martes 19 de abril de 2011, que "los gobiernos de Colombia y Venezuela y sectores empresariales de los dos países llegaron a un gran acuerdo para reactivar el intercambio binacional agropecuario

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De acuerdo a la información oficial del Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural de Colombia, de fecha 19 de abril de 2011, las ventas y exportaciones de ganado y carne de Colombia para Venezuela, acordadas entre los gobiernos y sectores empresariales de ambos países, para reactivar el intercambio binacional agropecuario, son: 6.500 reses (gordas) de las cuales 60% en pie (3.900 reses) y 40% en carne en canal (2.600 reses a ser sacrificadas en Colombia). Además 3.000 mautes o ganado en pie de 200 a 500 kilos de peso y 3.500 reses cargadas (vientres preñados) para el repoblamiento bovino en Venezuela.

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After weeks of intense negotiations, the United States and Colombia have reached a deal on a free trade pact that the White House says is a vital part of President Barack Obama's economic agenda.

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The Colombian government said last week that a free trade agreement between the Latin American country and Canada could be in effect as soon as July 1, an outcome that could be devastating to U.S. wheat producers' market share there.

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En Bogotá D.C., Colombia, al viernes 8 de abril de 2011, en el principal mercado del Frigorífico Guadalupe, los novillos gordos se preciaron entre 2.950 y 3.250 $/kg

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En Bogotá, D.C.. Colombia, al cierre de la semana el viernes 25 de marzo de 2011, en el principal mercado del Frigorífico Guadalupe, los precios promedio de novillos gordos se ubicaron entre 1,60 y 1,76 US$/kg en pie (3.000 y 3.300 $/kg en pie), mientras que los toros gordos promediaron 1,44 US$/kg en pie. 2.700 $/kg en pie. En la fecha la tasa de cambio representativa del mercado (TRM) fue de 1.871,37 $/US$ según el Banco de la República. La carne en canal de primera promedió 3,51 US$/kg en canal (6.560 $/kg en canal).

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Representatives from Colombia’s feed milling, swine and wheat industries visited Capitol Hill last week in an effort to educate congressional aides on the importance of a ratified free trade agreement (FTA) between the US and Colombia. The primary message they shared was the importance of the FTA to the Colombian agricultural sector.

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Following a recent USGC-conducted workshop in Colombia, Kurt Shultz, USGC regional director in Latin America and the Caribbean Region, said the agreement remains on the minds of many Colombian industry representatives. According to Mr Shultz, the seminars were very successful but also served as a reminder that without a ratified trade agreement, both US producers and Colombian end-users remain at a disadvantage.

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Translated into amorous terms, the current relationship between Colombia and Venezuela, with Juan Manuel Santos and Hugo Chávez in the starring roles, is not a passing flirtation or a Caribbean soap opera. It is not one of those sterile love promises either — true to its commitment to Chávez (“my new best friend”) to fight the guerrillas and organized crime, the Santos government extradited the Venezuelan drug-trafficker Walid Makled to Caracas instead of Washington, where he was also wanted.

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In a continuing effort to serve their customers better, AVICOL (Avícola Colombiana SA), located at Ibagué in Colombia, has taken the decision to modernise the San Felipe hatchery.

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In a continuing effort to serve their customers better, AVICOL (Avícola Colombiana SA), located at Ibagué in Colombia, has taken the decision to modernise the San Felipe hatchery.

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Out-going Colombian President Álvaro Uribe files complaint against Chavez before International Criminal Court Out-going Colombian President Álvaro Uribe filed a complaint before the International Criminal Court in Rome against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez for crimes against humanity that derive from the alleged harbouring of Colombian guerrilla fighters in Venezuelan soil, Uribe's lawyer, Jaime Granados, informed.

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Lion’s share of the drugs business goes to final distributors, says UN expert The lion’s share (85%) of the gross profits from the cocaine business between South America and the United States ends in the wholesale and retail distribution network in the US according to Antonio Luigi Mazzitelli, head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America.

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Newsham Choice Genetics, a worldwide leader in swine genetic technology, has partnered with Solla, a Medellin, Colombia-based multispecies nutrition company, to establish nucleus herds using Newsham Choice Genetics lines.

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A new report claims that American agriculture has been hurt by Congress’ inaction on the Colombian Free Trade Agreement.

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Colombia has reopened its borders to imports of live Canadian cattle.

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National Pork Producers Council International Affairs Counsel Nick Giordano, along with NPPC Public Policy Leadership Institute members last week visited with Colombian Ambassador to the United States Carolina Barco and Director of the Colombian Trade Bureau Ricardo Triana in Washington, D.C., to discuss trade issues.

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Beef cattle isn’t the first thing to come to mind when one mentions a farmer from Colombia, but Ricardo Gaitan McAllister made the trip to the NSW Beef Spectacular and Trade Expo at Dubbo last week to search for new beef genetics. He and his wife, Andrea, live in Colombia’s capital, Bogota, and operate the company Sabana Azul, which translates to Blue Savannah, and includes two farms.

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The impact of Venezuela's trade embargo against Colombia is increasingly evident in Colombia's eastern border cities, according to comments by several regional chambers of commerce

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hirteen cotton-clad bee aficionados, ages 22 to 63, piled into Jacqueline Freeman’s little country kitchen. Freeman hoisted a yellow jar of butter-thick honey and explained, sadly, how things are done at big bee farms

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The Galeras volcano in southern Colombia erupted on Saturday, shooting rock and ash

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The Colombian government has announced it is building a new military base on its border with Venezuela and has activated six new airborne battalions

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The third anniversary of the signing of the U.S.-Colombia free trade pact came and went this month with the Obama administration still negotiating the fine print, Congress showing little interest and business groups frustrated by the lack of action on trade deals.

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Canada can boost its grain and meat trade to Colombia if it ratifies its free-trade deal with Bogota before the United States, a government legislator said on Friday. Both the Canadian and American governments have signed free-trade deals with Colombia, but concerns about

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The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) applauds the Government of Canada’s announcement that Colombia will restore full access for Canadian beef from cattle of all ages. This announcement builds on Colombia’s decision, in May 2009, to partially re-open its border to Canadian

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Sofía Margarita Vergara born July 10, 1972 (age 35) in Barranquilla, Atlantico, Colombia is a Colombian model and actress.

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The Colombian Agricultural Institute officially registered the first Veterinary Medical Laboratory for diagnosis of diseases in animalsThis confirmed that the laboratory tests and diagnostic results that were obtained by the laboratory meet with the requirements of the institute

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Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health recently organised the Second International Congress of Bovine Reproduction in Bogotá, Colombia. The event was held

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- A series of campaign rounds for Colombia's Free Trade Agreement with the European Union that began in February are due to culminate next month. This will then enable the agreement to be signed in March 2010 and the Agreement will take effect the following year.

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Colombia announced Sept. 16 it will allow importing Canadian beef from animals of all ages, which makes it the first market in South America to reopen to Canadian beef since 2003. Stockwell Day, Canada’s Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, welcomed the news. "Our government has raised the beef importation issue repeatedly with Colombia," Minister Day said. "(This) announcement demonstrates

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Chipotle Mexican Grill Restaurant Opens In Columbia Edens & Avant, a US-based retail real estate company, has announced opening of Chipotle

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Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has the H1N1 virus, according to official sources. While in Medellín, the Presidency's Information and Press Secretary of Colombia, César Mauricio Velásquez, read an official release that said that Uribe has the virus, while National Health

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"Cucuta is dead," says Fernando, a Colombian textile trader who is planning to return to his home city of Medellin because work on the border with Venezuela has dried up. "We bring in fabrics and jeans from Medellin to sell here and we've always done well out of it. But not any more. I'm taking my family back home

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The veterinary authorities have reported an outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) to the World Organisation for

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Colombia completes military deal with US and invites Brazil to join Colombia would like to increase its military ties with Brazil and other South American countries, President Alvaro Uribe said on Friday after the Foreign Affairs ministry announced it had completed talks with Washington on allowing US troops to use seven Colombian military

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Unasur divided on Colombia/US troops issue; next summit in Argentina Leaders from the Union of South American Nations, Unasur meeting in a regional summit in Ecuador expressed fresh concerns over Colombian

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The growth in beef production is expected to slow in the coming years, while poultry meat output is predicted to continue growth. BMI's Colombia

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The veterinary authorities have reported an outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). The Colombian

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imposed punitive tariffs on Colombian goods July 11, citing the need to protect the country's industry from the competition of a weaker currency in the northern

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The Colombian government plans to sue Ecuador in the Andean Community of Nations and the World Trade Organization if its neighbor don't lift safeguards imposed on products imported from Colombia, Trade Minister Luis Guillermo Plata said Tuesday. The Ecuadorian government

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