In the US, chicken meat exports close the first 9 months of 2022 with a reduction

US chicken meat exports remain negative year-over-year. This also happened in the 2014/2015 crisis, when part of the country was surrounded by outbreaks of Avian Influenza. But now, everything indicates, it is the firm domestic demand that prevents greater exports. Yesterday, for example, in the celebration of Thanksgiving Day, it was chicken that made up for the lack faced in the offer of turkeys. In the first nine months of 2022, the US exported just over 2.432 million tons of chicken meat, a volume 2% lower than that recorded in the same period of 2021. In the last 12 months, total exports remain close, but still short of 3.3 million tons, a result almost 2.5% lower than the same period in the previous year. The graph below, on the right, shows that, remaining stable in the August/September period, the current 12-month accumulated volume corresponds to the lowest volume of the 24 months analyzed. Maintaining, in the final quarter of 2022, the average recorded in the first nine ...