In 2022, Brazil exported 2.2 million tons (Mt) (through the end of November), twice as much beef as the next largest exporter, the US. Between them, this represents a third of the total beef traded globally and Brazil and the US also have significant market shares in the largest...
Paraguayan meat will reduce its participation in international trade in 2023 and as a consequence it was excluded from the top 10 of the largest exporters. This behavior responds above all to a decline in the bovine population. Brazil remains the leader with 2,975,000 tons of equivalent carcass weight (cwe)...
The local meat sector does not raise its head. Added to the inflationary pressure, rising costs and the drought, is now the drop in the volumes of beef exported during the months of September, October and November. Also international prices recede. In this regard, the monthly report prepared by the Chamber of Industry and...
Despite challenges, U.S. beef has sold well in other countries. That’s the message shared at the Minnesota Cattle Industry Convention by John Hinners, senior vice president, industry relations, with the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF). “We could be close to a $12 billion export value on U.S. beef when...
Latin America is China’s largest import market for beef — with the import volume increasing at a rapid rate. According to Uruguay’s commerce ministry, China’s beef imports from the country increased by 26 percent in the first half of 2022. Since 2015, more than half of Uruguay’s beef has...
As of January 15, Argentina should stop delivering meat to butcher shops for half cattle of more than 80 kilos that operators carry on their shoulders. In its place, instead, it would have to be distributed with pieces of no more than 32 kilos. However, after in a technical meeting officials from...
The year begins with more questions than certainties. The only thing that is clear so far is that the economy will have to face the effects of the drought, which has already reduced the exportable balance of wheat, complicates the corn and soybean campaign -more than that- and has livestock...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay has announced through its social networks that 27 Uruguayan meat companies have received the go-ahead from the Chinese administration to export frozen beef bones to this Asian market. The qualification has been carried out under the new CIFER registration regime and has...
The cattle union argues, based on a work published by UPRA and statistics from the sector, that there is speculative behavior in the upper part of the chain and that it is necessary to deepen the cost analysis of the commercialization chain in the retail link, where another link is generated...
Beef exports to the United States is the beginning of the growth of the livestock sector and also the development of good genetics, quality and performance, said Agriculture Minister Limber Cruz. He stressed that with this event, the good work of the health and safety of local cattle stands...