Latest News From Exports

Demand for U.S. pork and beef exports in Colombia soar in 2022 with pork ahead of last year’s record pace by 10% and beef up 55% in volume and 78% in value over 2021, USMEF reports.

USMEF hosts Latin American representatives at a seminar to experience and learn about U.S. meat production and further processed products available in retail supermarkets.

Beef trade has been generally supportive thus far this year, but the future is uncertain, says Derrell Peel of Oklahoma State University.

Continued issues at ports threaten the value potential of chilled, never frozen, red meat exports.

To bridge the gap between the U.S. and UK, a recent USDA trade mission focused on current barriers that challenge U.S. agricultural exports in the UK market.

Addressing shipping inefficiencies and challenges at the ports, passed legislation receives positive reassurance from the industry.

Record-level red meat exports of $18.7 billion in 2021 had a major impact on the corn and soybean industries, according to an independent study by the Juday Group for the U.S. Meat Export Federation.

Biden says Ukraine has 20 million tons of stored grain awaiting export to various countries. He says lack of port movement coupled with halted planting in Ukraine will ignite a global food crisis unless action is taken.

The top 10 export markets all saw gains in 2021, with six of the 10 (China, Mexico, Canada, South Korea, the Philippines and Colombia) setting new records.

Dr. Pat Westhoff joins AgriTalk’s Chip Flory to share his spin on the latest trends in crop markets, livestock outlooks and projections for net farm income.

U.S. beef exports through August are down form 2018's record pace, yet exports still account for 14% of total U.S. beef production.

Cattle and beef markets have decreased from April highs with uncertainty in a variety of factors weighing on markets the past month. 

President Donald Trump remains in U.S. farmers’ good graces, according to the latest Farm Journal Pulse survey.

America’s largest foreign beef customer is shifting to other suppliers as new free trade agreements have created vast blocs excluding the U.S., offering lower tariffs on agricultural and industrial goods.

Global trade is helping with beef demand and countries like China will play an important role in years to come.

Argentinian cattlemen lose, exporters win as herds are sold off cheaply.

Japanese officials are considering lifting the 30-month age restriction on beef imported from the United States.

President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, the winner of the runoff, promises to drastically roll back environmental regulations for agriculture, including speeding up deforestation, converting forests into range and cropland.

U.S. beef trade continued the impressive performance of recent months in the latest monthly trade data for August.

Based on past history and international agreements, this atypical case should not affect beef exports or our negligible-risk status with the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).

The impact of U.S. beef exports on calf prices continues to rise as experts advise ranchers to stay abreast of trade developments globally.

Uncertainty with trade deals, global competition and an ongoing trade war have the potential to alter U.S. beef’s standing in the export market.

Total beef consumption in China in 2018 is estimated at 8.5 million metric tons, second only to the U.S., according to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service.

Research from the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture indicates that a trade agreement with Japan is crucial for the U.S. beef industry.

China has an estimated total cattle herd of 96.85 million head in 2018, slightly larger than the current U.S. herd of 94.4 million head.

Much of the uncertainty surrounding the issue of trade has created a level of anxiety within several U.S. industries.

Foreign markets for beef industry products continue to grow, especially in Asia.

France has taken another step closer to starting beef exports to China’s huge market after Chinese officials last week inspected seven of the European country’s meat plants, a French industry official said.

So far in 2018, the U.S. has exported beef to 100 different countries. However, 85 of those countries only account for 5.9 percent of year to date beef exports.

Beef exports during the first quarter or 2018 have continued (and built upon) the increases seen last year.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he thinks a conversation he had with China’s President Xi Jinping has had an impact on U.S. beef exports to China, where American exporters are now selling “a lot” of beef.

The January report from the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) showed Japan is maintaining a large appetite for U.S. beef products.

Greg Henderson says the cash fed cattle market has rallied $4 to $5. Cash fed cattle prices jumped to $4 per cwt to $130 during Friday, with dressed sales in the north were $5 higher at $205 per cwt

Japan's biggest exporter of premium Wagyu beef, expects shipments to climb to a record as demand from Taiwan is set to triple and exports to Brazil may begin.

Brazil’s government has won a court decision allowing the export of live cattle, overturning an injunction obtained by an animal rights group, the Agriculture Ministry said on Monday.

Crop protein content ties for lowest in decades on bad weather.

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China's largest online retailer to buy Montana beef

For the second time this week a member of the Batista family, owners of the world’s largest meat packing company, has been arrested in Brazil.

JBS's Joesley Batista Arrested in New Twist to Plea-Deal Scandal

Japanese officials confirm rising imports of frozen beef in the first quarter of the Japanese fiscal year (April-June) have triggered a safeguard, resulting in an automatic increase to Japan's tariff rate under the WTO on imports of frozen beef from the U.S.  

Friday’s release of Japanese import data could pull the trigger on major disruptions in the U.S.-Japan beef trade. 

A recent ban on the sale of cattle for slaughter will limit access to growing markets.

In letter, EU demands improved checks on meat safety.

PE investments push Daniel Dantas’s fortune to $1.8 billion.

USDA published details for traceability of American meat.

Beef trade protocols with China have been finalized by USDA.

Complex world of border trade: Cattle go north, meat south