“Wagyu Olympics” which judges the excellence of branded cattle from all over Japan took place.
Watch and try to unveil the mystery of Japanese Wagyu. English, French and Chinese Subtitles are available (Spoken only in Japanese).-
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【Opinion】 Losing trust in the two political party system in America. It has become a plutocracy (May 02,2016)
［By James R. Simpson, Affiliate Professor and Senior Fellow Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service Washington State University］ The campaign for election of America’s president began in earnest nearly two years ago. This time frame, which has doubled since the 1960s, is unbelievable to Americans as well as the rest of the world. Much of the reason campaigns have dramatically lengthened is demise of reading newspapers. That media has been replaced by Internet, Smartphones and TV that have turned viewing into an entertainment media. Another crucial change is that party loyalty has significantly declined. Twenty two% of voters identified themselves as independents in 1952. That percent … Continue reading
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【Opinion】 Concerns over Japan’s boost of feed rice production (April 19, 2016)
The Japan Agricultural News Senior special writer, Masaru Yamada Many farming regions in Japan are working on increasing cultivation of rice for livestock feed in an effort to improve the supply-demand balance of rice. The total acreage reached 80,000 hectares last year. The production is highly likely to continue expanding in the future, backed by rich government subsidies and support from agricultural organizations. This has also helped gradually recover the prices of table rice. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries estimates that there is roughly 4.42 million tons of potential demand for feed rice. If some 10 million tons of corn imported from countries such as the United States … Continue reading
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[Opinion] Abolishing the designated producers system for raw milk distribution unbeneficial for producers, distributors and consumers (April 16, 2016)
<The Japan Agricultural News has asked Nobuhiro Suzuki, professor of the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, to contribute an article to evaluate a recent recommendation by an agricultural working group of the government’s Regulatory Reform Council. The group proposed abolishing the nation’s raw milk distribution system, in which regional dairy co-operatives designated by the government collect milk from local dairy farmers, then negotiate with and sell the produce to dairy companies.> It is extremely inefficient to collect and sell raw milk in small units, as it is highly perishable. Such an inefficient system would confuse dairy farmers, distributors, dairy product manufacturers and retailers, and it would … Continue reading
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【News】 Tomato producers jointly tackling shortage of part-time workers at grading house in quake-hit area of Yatsushiro Agricultural Cooperative, Kumamoto prefecture (April 26, 2016)
Farmers in the territory of Yatsushiro Agricultural Cooperative (JA), one of major tomato producing areas in Japan, have entered their busiest season of harvest in the year. A tomato grading facility of the JA Yatsushiro, however, is now suffering from a lack of part-time workers. A number of those workers have been evacuated at public shelters taking off at the grading house since the Kumamoto earthquake hardly struck the area on April 14. With a view to coping with the shortage of part-time workers, member farmers of the tomato producers’ group of JA Yatsushiro decided to fill the vacancy of grading and packing workers at the facility by themselves. In … Continue reading
【Opinion】 France’s mountain farming – a model for Japanese farmers (April 8, 2016)
Toshinobu Kitabayashi, head of Worldwide Agricultural Policy Information Center Between the beginning of this year and February, a series of fierce protests spread among livestock farmers of western France against a squeeze in margins by large supermarkets which made it difficult for them to even make up for production costs. The French government and the European Union have been busy trying to settle the issue, with President Francois Hollande promising to review the deregulatory measures implemented under the act on modernization of agriculture and fisheries enacted in 2010 by the administration of former President Nicholas Sarkozy, and the European Union presenting emergency support measures. However, I would like to discuss … Continue reading
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