Australia unstoppable: new monthly record for meat exports

Although in October they were surpassed by only 50 tons for a total of 130,048, the country is on track to comfortably surpass the maximum of 1.28 million tons per year established in 2014. In the first 10 months of the year the cumulative total is 1.097 million, 24% more than last year to date, adding 215 thousand tons. With a weekly slaughter at high levels, above 142 thousand heads since October, they suggest that large export volumes will continue until the end of the year. Particularly shipments to the United States represented 34% of the total, with 45,338 tons, the second highest figure in history behind September 2014 when the American industry was going through a cycle of stock recovery and Australia placed 47 thousand tons in that market. So far this year, the 317,532 tons of Australian beef imported by the United States represent a year-on-year increase of 66%, almost 127 thousand tons more than in January-October 2023. Shipments to South Korea and Japan also increased ...