August’s $1bn was “a huge milestone” for US beef exports

07/10/2021

US beef exports reached a new value record in August, bringing in more than $1 billion. This is the first time monthly beef export revenues have exceeded $1 billion.

According to the US Meat Export Federation (USMEF), there were record shipments to China and the largest shipment of the year so far to Japan. This helped take the total volume of beef exports for the month to more than 130,000 tonnes.