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Red Meat Exports for 2020 Tuesday Jan 19th, 2021 News Reporter With your Southeast Regional Ag Report, Im Trevor Williams. More export numbers are slowly trickling in. Last week, the USDA released Red Meat Exports for January - November 2020. Even through the struggles of 2020 and processing facilities closing down during the pandemic, export numbers are up slightly from last year. Here is Bart Kenner, USDA economist, with the breakdown of the export numbers: "Meat products exports...

US AG Exports Huge Despite sluggish sales of agriculture exports for much of the year due to the pandemic, the US may see record ag sales for 2020. Bart Kenner, a USDA economist, compiled the total export sales of bulk commodities for the first eleven months of 2020. Kenner says the total export number through November comes to nearly $130 billion compared to the less than $125 billion for the same period in 2019. An increase of 4%. Kenner: “Exports of wheat to date for the calendar year 2020...

China’s corn and soybean purchases help push U.S. ag exports to levels not seen since 2013.