QUINCY, IL (WGEM) - According to new report from the U-S Meat Export Federation, 2020 will go down as a record year for pork exports. More pork than ever is being shipped overseas to markets like China and Japan.
In September pork exports were up 10 percent compared to that time last year, with the value topping $560 million dollars.
Farmers say this is necessary in a difficult production year.
COVID-19 shutting down meat production plants in the spring causing many farmers to have more product than they could sell. The extra demand from other countries saved some farmers from losing out and they want this trend to continue.
“Our goal is that we want to be a supplier of pork for the rest of the world. We would like to sell that 30 or 35 percent of our production to the rest of the world.”
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Randy Sims, Adams County pork producer
Sims says high U.S. export can be attributed to healthy swine herds and fast production facilities.
November 23, 2020 at 06:56PM
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