date:Jun 12, 2012
uary through April increased 6 percent in value to $1.72 billion despite a 10 percent decline in volume (361,122 metric tons).
Meanwhile, on a per-head-slaughtered basis, April pork exports equated to $57.69 down slightly from the first quarter of this year, however, still more than one dollar higher than in April 2011. Exports equated to $58.84 per head for the first four months of 2012.
April pork-muscle cut exports amounted to 24 percent of production 27.7 percent when including both musc