Changing composition of Australian beef exports
AUSTRALIA - Beef is now Australia’s highest value rural commodity export, with a variety of beef cuts exported to all regions of the world. The composition of these exports has changed significantly over the past five years.
27 October 2006
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Of the 909,000 tonnes of beef exported in 2005, 61% was shipped as frozen, grassfed beef, with 40% of this sent to the US market for manufacturing purposes. Almost 18% of Australian beef exported was chilled, grainfed beef, with the high priced/high quality Japanese market the dominant buyer (88% of the total).
In the past five years, exports of quality ox/steer beef have expanded rapidly to represent almost half of all exports, relegating the basic *A* beef classification to only 27% of the total.
Source: mla.com.au
