Ag Secretary to Visit Six International Markets and U.S. Beef Sales to China Dive
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.
**Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins will visit six international markets this year to boost American agricultural exports.
At a time when the ag trade deficit is nearly $50 billion following the previous administration's little to no action in the international marketplace, the USDA is working to diversify and strengthen global markets and hold existing trading partners accountable.
This year, Secretary Rollins will visit Vietnam, Japan, India, Peru, Brazil, and the United Kingdom.
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**There have been over 20 million commercial table/shell egg laying hens lost already in 2025 to bird flu, impacting egg supply and prices.
As a stopgap measure to boost egg supplies, it’s been suggested that surplus broiler hatchery eggs could be transferred to the egg products market, that could then be sold as fresh, helping lower prices.
They are currently used for animal feed products or often disposed of.
**U.S. beef sales to China have taken a dive after Beijing allowed the expiration of registrations that permitted exports from hundreds of American meat facilities.
The tit-for-tat tariff dispute has also raised duties on U.S. meat and other goods shipped to China, making them less attractive to Chinese buyers.
China has not renewed export registrations for U.S. beef facilities that expired on March 16, though it updated registrations for pork and poultry plants.
