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Wagyu. Wagyu (Japanese: 和牛, Hepburn: wagyū, lit. 'Japanese cattle') is the collective name for the four principal Japanese breeds of beef cattle. All wagyū cattle originate from early twentieth-century cross-breeding between native Japanese cattle and imported stock, mostly from Europe. [1]: 5.
The Japanese Black cow (Japanese: 黒毛和種, Kuroge Washu) is a breed of Japanese beef cattle. It is one of six Japanese cattle breeds, [4] and one of the four Japanese breeds known as wagyu, the others being the Japanese Brown, the Japanese Polled and the Japanese Shorthorn. [5]: 420 All wagyu cattle derive from cross-breeding in the early ...
Cattle. Bos primigenius. The Japanese Brown (Japanese: 褐毛和種, Akage Washu or 赤牛, Aka Ushi) is a breed of small Japanese beef cattle. It is one of six native Japanese cattle breeds, [2] and one of the four Japanese breeds known as wagyu, the others being the Japanese Black, the Japanese Polled and the Japanese Shorthorn. [3]: 420 All ...
The Japanese Shorthorn (Japanese: 日本短角種, Nihon Tankaku Shu) is a breed of small Japanese beef cattle. It is one of six native Japanese cattle breeds, [2] and one of the four Japanese breeds known as wagyu, the others being the Japanese Black, the Japanese Brown and the Japanese Polled. All wagyu cattle derive from cross-breeding in ...
Kobe beef. Kobe beef (神戸ビーフ, Kōbe bīfu) is Wagyu beef from the Tajima strain of Japanese Black cattle, raised in Japan 's Hyōgo Prefecture around Kobe city, according to rules set out by the Kobe Beef Marketing and Distribution Promotion Association. [1] The meat is a delicacy, valued for its flavour, tenderness and fatty, well ...
The Japanese Polled (Japanese: 無角和種, Mukaku Washu) is a critically-endangered breed of small Japanese beef cattle. It is one of six native Japanese cattle breeds, [2] and one of the four Japanese breeds known as wagyu, the others being the Japanese Black, the Japanese Brown and the Japanese Shorthorn. [3]: 420 All wagyu cattle derive ...
Japan was effectively isolated from the rest of the world from 1635 until 1854; there was no possibility of intromission of foreign genes to the cattle population during this time. Between 1868, the year of the Meiji Restoration, and 1887, some 2,600 foreign cattle were imported. At first there was little interest in cross-breeding these with ...
Argentina has the world's second-highest consumption rate of beef, with yearly consumption at 55 kg per person. [7] In 2006, livestock farmers kept between 50 and 55 million head of cattle, mostly in the fertile pastures of the Pampas. The country is currently the third-largest beef exporter in the world after Brazil and Australia. The national ...