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- BUSINESS, Page 56Business NotesANIMAL HUSBANDRYTexas Beef, Tokyo Flavor
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- Fuji, Judo, Mazda and Ryusho are dead but not forgotten. The
- four Wagyu bulls, smuggled from their native Japan to the U.S.
- in 1972, left a valuable legacy for Texas cattleman Don Lively.
- His stockpile of semen from the bulls and their descendants,
- which are believed to be the only strain ever to leave Japan,
- is worth $2 million. The cattle produce tender Kobe beef, a
- delicacy that sells in Japan for as much as $180 per lb. Lively
- and his partner have sold $1 million worth of the semen at $250
- a vial, in contrast to $25 for the typical U.S. variety.
- Ranchers from Canada to New Zealand foresee a bonanza in Wagyu
- beef because Japan has little room for raising cattle. They
- expect to boost meat shipments to Japan when the country lifts
- import quotas on beef next year.
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