On Sat, 31 Aug 2019 13:33:44 -0700, wrote:

On Saturday, August 31, 2019 at 2:57:34 PM UTC-5, AMuzi wrote:

I see in today's paper that pork in Beijing moved from 18 yuan/kilo to
32 this year and rising on trade limits and swine flu (weigh that out -
both are factors). That's really nice for Iowa.

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Not really. Pork is down 50% since April.
Does the USA now have an over supply to domestic markets from that whch
previously went to china?

And current price is about
equal to what it was one year ago. So despite swine flu and other
problems, pork has stayed the same for one year. China is just doing
without meat and/or buying it from other parts of the world.

They are substituting beef for pork in some parts. Widescale drought in
Australia is seeing massiver amounts of cattle go to slaughter but the
local price has doubled. AFAIK, china has relaxed the beef import quotas
for Aussie Beef and there is significant amount,for Australian market,
being now sent to China.


I suspect
the pork market, as well as the soybean business that has moved to Brail
and Argentina, will never return to the USA. Its gone forever.