Export beef markets

[Brandonm2]

Most imported beef is lean trimmings used in the cheap burger biz. It is usually the stuff unfit for the Japanese Market. They just chop up everything and then it is mixed with our fat trimmings shaved off of all those yield grade 3s, 4s, and 5s to produce burger meat (why the packers are fighting country of origin labeling(COOL)) to achieve the desired fat percentage. Most of those cattle aren't either finished or aged. OBVIOUSLY this is not a market with a high margin of profit and only our worst calves wind up with the cull cows.

Are we shipping beef to Japan now?

Get a dictionary!!
If we shipped it to Japan (if they would buy it) it would be "exported beef" when we bring in beef from Australia it is "imported beef". Their best stuff goes to the Asian marketplace and we get the burger stuff. Most of the boxed beef we get is from Canada (see NAFTA).