Ukraine has opened market access to live Canadian cattle, giving Canadian dairy and beef producers a chance to not only export commodities, but to sell an entire value chain.
“We have a reasonable number of markets that are open for live cattle from Canada, subsequent to the cleanup of the BSE issues…And we actually have a limited supply of product. And so the fact that it’s open is important,” says Dr. David Chalack, president of Rocky Mountain Holsteins Inc. Chalack is also involved with the Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency, Alta Genetics Inc., the Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Livestock Genomics, and several other organizations.