Articles Tagged with ''U.S. Meat Export Federation''

Pork exports have enjoyed a healthy first half of 2023, but beef sales to overseas customers have lagged, according to data released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).

The halt in operations at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach was brief and union workers are now back on their jobs, but the stoppage at the largest port complex in the U.S. created a scare for U.S. meat exporters and their foreign customers, according to U.S. Meat Export Federation spokesman Joe Schuele.

The statistics for the first three quarters of 2022 show new records being set for U.S. beef exports to East Asia, according to an analysis by USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service.