Brazil exports record corn and beef

Data released by the Foreign Trade Secretariat (SECEX) indicate record corn and beef exports for the month of October. “For corn, the volume shipped in the month was 7.20 million tons, 302% above the volume shipped in October last year and 20% above the last record for the month reached in 2019”, comments AgResouce. "With this volume, annual exports total 31.87 million tons from January to October, 118% above the accumulated in the same period last year", completes the consultancy. For beef, Brazilian shipments totaled 188.6 thousand tons. “The figure was 129% higher than last year since in this period of 2021 China was absent from the Brazilian beef market due to the suspension of imports due to the finding of 2 cases of atypical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (“Mad Cow”) in the country. Brazil. In relation to the last record, also reached in 2019, the data was 11% higher”, he indicates. “In 2022, exports already total 1.69 million tons, a pace 25% higher than that observed in ...