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Ky Ag Commissioner Hails Lifting of Chinese Embargo on US Beef

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Kentucky’s Agriculture Commissioner is praising the announcement that China is ending its embargo on beef imports from the U.S. From member station WKYU, Kevin Willis has this story…

 

The Trump administration announced that China would start importing U.S. beef no later than July 16th. In a statement, Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles said the decision will re-open a market a 1.3 billion people that had been closed since 2003.

China banned beef imports from the U.S. that year following a case of mad-cow disease. Kentucky has more than one-million beef cows, making the state the largest beef cattle producer east of the Mississippi

River. Beef cattle sales netted more than 733-million-dollars in farm cash receipts last year.

Kevin is the News Director at WKU Public Radio. He has been with the station since 1999, and was previously the Assistant News Director, and also served as local host of Morning Edition. He is a broadcast journalism graduate of WKU, and has won numerous awards for his reporting and feature production. Kevin grew up in Radcliff, Kentucky and currently lives in Glasgow.
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