Exports soar past £1 billion
Exports of British meat and livestock products have crashed through the £1 billion barrier for the first time in more than ten years.
Preliminary figures released by the Meat and Livestock Commission (MLC) show beef and lamb exports both increasing with sales of lamb abroad reaching £230 million and beef at £90 million while pork exports were at £100 million.
And in its first year of full export trading British beef exports reached more than 40,000 tonnes – way above the original estimate of 30,000 tonnes.
The figures are the highest since 1995 when beef exports were banned because of BSE.
