Hawaiian beef: export down, local consumption up
HAWAII - Hawaii cattle farmers are shipping less beef to Japan and the Mainland, but local consumption of Hawaii-produced beef is up 26 percent.
14 November 2006
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Total cattle marketings are running at 3,400 head a month, based on September figures, with 33,600 head marketed in the first nine months of this year. The first figure is down 3 percent from last year; the second is down 6 percent.
Within that total, however, are two divergent trends. Steer and heifer exports to Japan and the Mainland in September, 2,500 head, were down 11 percent from year-before levels, the National Agricultural Statistics Service Hawaii Field Office reported Monday. Exports are up 1 percent for the year to date.
Commercial production of Hawaii-grown beef for local consumption, 900 head, or 540,000 pounds, was up 26 percent from year-before levels, and for the year to date the local consumption figure is 4.7 million pounds, up 14 percent from the first nine months of 2005.
Source: pacific.bizjournals.com
