Pork Highlights
September 2023:

Pork: 175,096 mt, steady; $535 million, -5%
PVM: 46,044 mt, -4%; $109 million, +3%
Pork + PVM: 221,140 mt, -1%; $644 million, -4%

January – September 2023:

Pork: 1.696 million mt, +8%, $4.939 billion, +6%
PVM: 438,190 mt, +15%; $1.029 billion, +13%
Pork + PVM: 2.134 million mt, +9%; $5.968 billion, +7%

September pork muscle cut exports totaled 175,096 mt, relatively steady (+0.1%) or +191 mt from last year.

 September pork variety meat exports totaled 46,044 mt, down 4% or -1,771 mt from last year.

 January – September pork muscle cut + pork variety meat exports totaled 2.134 million mt, up 9% or +181,132 mt from last year. Exports were higher to Mexico (+88,980 mt), Auz/NZ (+25,610 mt), Canada (+18,960 mt), Caribbean + DR (+16,430 mt), China/HK (+16,220 mt), ASEAN (+12,250 mt), Taiwan (+11,810 mt), Central America (+7,310 mt), Korea (+3,450 mt), and EU27 + UK (+290 mt), while exports were lower to Japan (-12,680 mt) and South America (-8,640 mt).

 September pork exports accounted for 24.0% of pork production and 28.1% when including variety meats, compared to 23.2% and 27.4% for September 2022.  January – September 2023 pork exports accounted for 25.2% of production and 29.4% when including variety meats, compared to 23.5% and 27.1% for January – September 2022. 

September 2023 pork export value per head averaged $61.94/head, down $0.74/head or -1% from $62.67/head in September 2022.  January – September 2023 pork export value per head averaged $63.16/head, up $3.26/head or +5% from $59.91/head for January – September 2022.

SOURCE: USMEF