By Scott Brown
Farm Progress
Pandemic-related market turmoil since March 2020 has resulted in large shifts in consumer demand for many products in many markets. Beef exports have not escaped this phenomenon, as declines in shipments from May through July 2020 nearly wiped out all the gains against the previous year since the beginning of 2020.
But one market has proven amazingly resilient over the past few quarters. Even as pork prices decline and total meat supplies recover from African swine fever, China has been a consistent bright spot for U.S. beef exports.