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U.S. pork and beef exports made a strong finish in 2016, resulting in records being set for the year.  Pork exports reached a record 2.3 million metric tons in 2016, up 8 percent from 2015, according to USDA figures.  Exports were up despite the strong dollar, according to Phil Seng, president and CEO of the U.S. Meat Export Federation.

“We have a practice we call intensified customer contact where we really go out and go door-to-door as far as the trade, really extolling the merits and virtues of our product,” Seng told Brownfield Ag News Thursday, “so there’s a lot that’s been going on in spite of the headwinds.”

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