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Strong December tops off good year for US beef

09/02/2017

The US exported 1.19 million tonnes of beef during 2016 for a value of $6.34 billion, according to the year-end figures from the US Meat Export Federation (USMEF). This represented an increase of 11% in volume and 1% in value compared to 2015. Exports accounted for 13.7 percent of total US beef production in 2016 In December, a total of 116,847...

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