KZBlog

An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘cattle’

  • He’s a Cowboy on the Steppes

    The title is for all you Jimmy Buffet fans. Once again, for some reason, the program to bring US and Canadian beef cattle, as well as expertise, to Kazakhstan is hitting the press. The Moscow Times via Reuters has a nice article up about Michael Slattery, a cowboy from Nebraska, currently working at a cattle […]

  • US Meat Will Have to Do

    I’ve been enjoying reading the news about a new program to import US and Canadian beef cattle to Kazakhstan in order to improve the stock here. One of the common stereotypes in Kazakhstan about the US is that American meat tastes awful while Kazakhstan meat is very good. Now I have a theory on this: […]