Juan Lema: "In the United States, there will be a shortage of meat throughout 2026"

He is a meat broker and is at the head of Agromeals, a company dedicated to the commercialization of meat, dairy, and by-products, with participation in more than 20 countries, including the most important markets in the world. Recently, he participated in the Anuga fair in Germany, one of the most important in the world for the trade of animal protein. He highlighted that it was a good fair, a suitable scenario to hold meetings with importers and also with the exporting industry from this part of the world. At the market level, there is a very marked firmness in destinations such as Europe in a context where the values for quota 481 were being negotiated, and with a Hilton where Uruguay copies Argentina's trend with a slightly lower price; the Chinese importers at the fair were few, but not due to lack of interest, since they were on vacation week, but in any case, in China, meat demand is firm, mainly for commodity grass-fed meat, but with a growing demand for high-quality meat, ...