US ended 2022 with a 1.22% decrease in chicken meat exports

The final (but still incomplete) data from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) indicate that in 2022 the North American poultry industry exported just over 3.3 million chicken meat, a volume that represented a decrease of 1.22% over the 3.341 million tons of 2021. The result would have been positive if, as occurred in the previous year, exports in the second half had increased close to 3% in relation to the first half of the year. However, everything indicates that the registration of cases of Avian Influenza in North American territory, even though it did not affect the production of chicken meat, affected exports. As a result, the result for the second half of 2022 was 2.5% below what was recorded in the same period of 2021. The curious thing, in this case, is that the volume indicated by the USDA for the period of just over 1.650 million tons was, with a minimal difference, the same registered in the first half of the year, with an increase of only 0.25% (close to of 418 ...