Suggested Lead: Some see the world as a potential dumping ground for meats not eaten in the United States. That’s not the case, according to Dan Dierschke, a cow/calf producer from Austin, Texas, who is also on the executive committee of the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF). Consumers the world over, he says, are becoming increasingly able to purchase high quality U.S. meat – when they are allowed to.
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Dierschke says the variety offered by the U.S. meat industry is one of its true strengths.
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Dierschke says he’s at a loss to explain why more support isn’t given to the USMEF effort to increase meat sales throughout all across the globe.
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Getting to know about what’s going on in the international scene isn’t that difficult.
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Dierschke says a variety of USMEF efforts are used to expand the amount of U.S. beef, pork and lamb marketed to countries around the world. These efforts are heavily dependent on the societies and cultures of the countries involved.
The U.S. Meat Export Federation is the trade association responsible for developing international markets for the U.S. red meat industry and is funded by USDA, exporting companies, and the beef, pork, lamb, corn, sorghum and soybean checkoff programs.
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