Mexico reports 10 percent rise in cattle exports to the US

Mexican producers exceeded last year's exports by more than 80,000 heads, culminating in the sale of 819,581 live animals, the federal agency emphasized.

The organization emphasized that the cattle came from nine establishments in the Mexican Republic that meet the bovine tuberculosis health status required by US health authorities for export to that country: Campeche, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Veracruz and Yucatán.

This is possible thanks to the efforts of livestock breeders in conducting the National Bovine Tuberculosis Campaign, thanks to which they have achieved that the prevalence of the disease is less than 0.5 percent in 86.23 percent of the country's territory.

The 2022-23 U.S. cattle export cycle included 53 weeks beginning September 1 and ending the last day of August of the following year.

In 1993, the US-Mexico Binational Committee for the Elimination of Bovine Tuberculosis was established, and the issue of brucellosis was later added to it.