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No sign of a slowdown in Brazilian slaughter

21/02/2014
The Brazilian leather industry has said it expects 2014 to be a quieter year than the record-breaking 2013 was, but early indications show no slowdown in slaughter levels or in demand for Brazilian beef. If anything, the reverse is true.

Figures for January show that one of the country’s most important cattle-raising states, Mato Grosso, slaughtered the second-highest number of cattle in its history. Over the course of January 2014, abattoirs in Mato Grosso processed 559,150 head of cattle. This figure represents an increase of 17% on December 2013 and is second only to July 2013 for the highest monthly slaughter total on record. The total in July 2013 was 563,000.

At the same time, an announcement has come from the US Department of Agriculture saying it will consider opening up the US market to beef from Brazilian states that are free of foot and mouth disease. In response to this, the executive director of the Brazilian meat exporters’ association (ABIEC), Fernando Sampaio, said he thought there was plenty of room in export markets in North America and Asia for Brazilian beef and that the product’s long-term potential was “huge”.



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