Red meat exports have been on fire again for much 2021, but the head of the US Meat Export Federation says they could have been better.
President and CEO Dan Halstrom says labor isn’t the only headwind slowing exports. “The bottom line is the availability of containers is less than it normally is and it’s more expensive to move them,” he says. “We have literally thousands of loads of beef and pork frozen, not chilled (the chilled are moving), being rolled from week to week.
