date:Jun 11, 2014
ne year ago. Variety meat export value was 20.8 per cent higher than in April 2013.
Large year-on-year declines for variety meat exports in January and February leave the year-to-date total (123.331 million pounds) still well-short (-16.2 per cent) of last year through April, but the value of those shipments is up 13.1 per cent from one year ago.
A point of attention for exports this year had been China/Hong Kong. I had expected the Smithfield-Shuanghui merger to begin showing up in higher exp