11.   It will continue to monitor the beef market and has support measures available to stabilize the market, Kiely said.

12.   Just as the administration was selling high in the oil market, she said, it was buying low in the beef market.

13.   Large cattle supplies have weakened wholesale beef markets enough that grocers and restaurants could stock up on supplies, traders said.

14.   Mad cow disease caused a panic in the British beef market a few years ago and prompted strict import bans on this side of the Atlantic.

15.   There are also worries about the overall beef market.

16.   Wholesale beef markets are expected to slow, because most retailers have already stocked their meat coolers.

17.   With meatpackers fully stocked, traders are watching the wholesale beef market to measure meat demand.

18.   Our wrap includes dealers and shoppers in France, the Minister of Health in Germany and shots of a beef market in South Africa.

19.   After that, the domestic beef market will be fully liberalized.

20.   Beef exports to South Africa, however, are at risk because the government there wants to retain access to lucrative world beef markets.