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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Chinese importers purchased 1,500 metric tons of U.S. beef earlier this month, evidence that the “phase one” trade deal is already resulting in new export opportunities for the U.S., according to new data from USDA.
It’s been less than a month since the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement kicked off on Jan. 1 and the outlook for U.S. beef and pork exports is already rosier.
For U.S. red meat exporters, it's been touch and go with their major markets for two to three years, yet their foreign sales keep growing robustly, and they hope to set records again in 2020.
Meat exporters’ scouts abroad describe plant-based meat substitutes as popular in spots, a curiosity or absent in others, and too pricey so far in most places.
Barbara Stinson has been tapped to serve as the new president of the World Food Prize Foundation and the Grocery Manufacturers Association added Roberta Wagner and Spencer Pederson to its regulatory and federal affairs team.
China’s latest promise to reduce tariffs on U.S. soybeans and pork is being lauded as an olive branch ahead of new trade talks early next month, but China also needs more of the commodities to feed its people, according to industry and government analysts.
The dollar-per-head assessment on cattle sold in the U.S. will fund more than $40 million worth of research and promotion projects in the beef checkoff’s next fiscal year.
American ranchers and cattle producers get exclusive access to a large portion of Europe's tariff rate quota for beef under a deal signed Friday at the White House.
Taiwanese supermarkets and restaurants are getting a look at some unfamiliar cuts of beef in an effort to increase U.S. marketshare in the Asian nation.