AUSTRALIAN BEEF EXPORTS CHANGING
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AUSTRALIA: Beef is now Australia’s highest value agricultural commodity export, a big change from five years ago.
The composition of beef exports from Australia has changed substantially during the past five years, according to Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA). Beef is now Australia’s highest value agricultural commodity export.
MLA’s latest market brief—released last week—showed that of the 909,000 metric tons of Australian beef exported in 2005, 61percent was frozen, grass-fed beef, with 40 percent of this volume sent to the United States.
Almost 18 percent of Australian exported beef was chilled, grain-fed beef, with the high priced/high quality Japanese market the dominant buyer—88 percent of the total.
In the past five years, exports of quality steer beef have expanded rapidly to represent almost half of all exports, relegating the basic “A” beef classification to only 27 percent of the total.
“Each major Australian beef cut has its own set of key global markets, with almost all fullsets and brisket exported sent to Japan,” a MLA news release stated.
The vast majority of manufacturing beef was shipped to the United States. A large portion of short ribs and rib meat is exported to Korea, and a substantial portion of shin/shank is sent to to Taiwan. Web posted: October 30, 2006
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Does anyone besides me see something fishy here?
We have very little exports with our two biggest......the Japs and Korea virtually taking none..........yet the are the Aussies are shipping tremendous amounts here and there????????????????????????????
What's wrong with this picture?
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AUSTRALIA: Beef is now Australia’s highest value agricultural commodity export, a big change from five years ago.
The composition of beef exports from Australia has changed substantially during the past five years, according to Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA). Beef is now Australia’s highest value agricultural commodity export.
MLA’s latest market brief—released last week—showed that of the 909,000 metric tons of Australian beef exported in 2005, 61percent was frozen, grass-fed beef, with 40 percent of this volume sent to the United States.
Almost 18 percent of Australian exported beef was chilled, grain-fed beef, with the high priced/high quality Japanese market the dominant buyer—88 percent of the total.
In the past five years, exports of quality steer beef have expanded rapidly to represent almost half of all exports, relegating the basic “A” beef classification to only 27 percent of the total.
“Each major Australian beef cut has its own set of key global markets, with almost all fullsets and brisket exported sent to Japan,” a MLA news release stated.
The vast majority of manufacturing beef was shipped to the United States. A large portion of short ribs and rib meat is exported to Korea, and a substantial portion of shin/shank is sent to to Taiwan. Web posted: October 30, 2006
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Does anyone besides me see something fishy here?
We have very little exports with our two biggest......the Japs and Korea virtually taking none..........yet the are the Aussies are shipping tremendous amounts here and there????????????????????????????
What's wrong with this picture?