Beef exports rebound

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According to KSH data, Hungary’s live cattle exports decreased by 36.5 percent (43.6 thousand tons) and their value by 20.4 percent in the first eight months of 2025 compared to January-August 2024. The main partners were Israel, Croatia, Poland, Italy and Austria. Hungary’s live cattle imports fell by 58.4 percent (5.2 thousand tons) and their value by 48.7 percent compared to a year earlier. Almost half of the live cattle came from the Czech Republic and Latvia. The volume of beef exports increased by 74.7 percent (8.4 thousand tons). The volume of beef imports decreased by 3.9 percent (8.4 thousand tons), while its value increased by 31.6 percent in the observed period. According to AKI PÁIR data, the producer price of slaughter cattle continued to increase in weeks 1–40 of 2025: per kilogram of carcass warm weight, the producer price of a young bull reached HUF 2,040, that of a slaughter heifer HUF 1,389 and that of a slaughter cow HUF 1,449.

AKI PÁIR