Pork and Beef Exports Lower

When compared to 2024 US, pork exports are lower, although there were some highlights, US Meat Export Federation President and CEO, Dan Halstrom.

“About 241,000 metric tons exported. Down slightly down about 4% value down about 2% at $671 million and I can't stress enough the continued demand from Latin America, it just continues to amaze other markets that did well for the month of February, the ASEAN region continues to perform, especially the Philippines, Cuba and New Zealand, on the boneless pork side, were good, as well.”

As for US, beef exports, a little over 98,000 tons exported globally, which is down about 5% so we had some pretty good performances in some key markets. Korea was up a couple percent year on year. Canada is another country that there's a lot of talk about anti US sentiment, possibly what's going on politically between the countries, but you wouldn't know it from the stats, 8400 tons exported in February up about over 20% on the beef side, were down significantly in China in February at 12,800 tons. But a lot of this is the result of the lack of approval of beef plant registrations in China. “

Dan Halstrom with the US Meat Export Federation.