Experts believe continued gains in export markets in 2020 will enable further growth for the meat and poultry industry, despite the turbulence and turmoil around it.
"Economic and political order has become disorder," said Dan Basse, president of AgResource, in market analysis comments at the 2019 Feeding Quality Forum in Amarillo, Texas.
China’s state media is reporting that the country will exempt some American soybeans, pork and other agricultural products from additional tariffs to ease tensions between it and the United States.
The Chinese government has announces measures to boost its domestic pork supply and stabilize pork prices as the country struggles with its African swine fever outbreak.