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Meat company exec pleased with beef sales to China, so far

An official of Greater Omaha Packing Company says beef sales to China are going well.

Greater Omaha was the first company to ship beef to China when that market reopened last summer. Senior director of export sales and marketing Jerry Wiggs says they’ve been pleased with how the market has developed so far.

“Like any new market, it has its challenges,” Wiggs says. “However, if I do a comparison of where I was in the first eight months of, say, shipping to Europe, compared to where we are eight months into shipping beef to China, we are probably a thousand percent more.”

Mexico is one of Greater Omaha Packing’s biggest customers, but Wiggs says the disputes over NAFTA and the border wall have not hurt their business with Mexico at this point.  And he says one of their fastest growing markets for beef is the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia.

Wiggs spoke with Brownfield at the Nebraska Governor’s Ag Conference.

AUDIO: Jerry Wiggs