Official figures show that packers in the US produced 25 million tonnes (25 billion kilos) of red meat in 2019, an increase of 3% compared to the previous year. This included 12.3 million tonnes of beef, 1% up on the figure for 2018. There was an increase in the number of cattle that went to slaughter in 2019, reaching more than 33.5 million, a...

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