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U.S. beef exports navigate BSE case
Story Date: 7/17/2012
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Source: Tom Johnston, MEATINGPLACE, 7/16/12
U.S. beef exports in May showed no major fallout from a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy found at a California dairy in late April, the U.S. Meat Export Federation said after compiling recent USDA data.
“All things considered, we are pleased with the manner in which beef exports have weathered the most recent BSE case,” Seng said. “With the exception of Saudi Arabia, we have not suffered any significant setbacks in terms of market access. And though we expected consumer interest to slow temporarily in markets such as Korea, the May export results were actually quite strong.”
May was the strongest month so far this year for U.S. beef exports, but volume (95,221 metric tons) was down 13 percent compared to May 2011 and 10 percent lower (456,343 metric tons) through the first five months of the year.
Beef export value in May ($471.1 million) rose 4 percent, keeping the year-to-date export value ($2.19 billion) 5 percent faster than last year’s record pace.
USMEF noted that volume slowed moderately in several major markets in the first five months of the year, but value increased nonetheless. In Japan, for example, volume (56,297 metric tons) fell by 6 percent, but value ($370.7 million) jumped 13 percent.
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