2024年4月30日 · China’s growing middle class and rising demand for high-quality food products have led to a boom in the country’s dairy sector. With the help of USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) and the Cochran Fellowship Program, U.S. alfalfa hay producers...

2025年2月18日 · According to USDA data from 2024, total hay exports comprised less than 3% of all U.S. dry hay production. Even though this is a relatively small percentage nationwide, export sales make up a much more prominent portion of the Western hay market and thus play a larger role in Western hay prices.

2022年2月15日 · The country now accounts for nearly 55% of all alfalfa hay exports leaving U.S. ports. Monthly export totals to China during 2021 ranged from 65,409 MT in January to an all-time monthly record high of 191,267 MT in August. China is clearly the major driver for enhanced alfalfa hay exports and, for that matter, all hay exports.

2024年2月13日 · Hay exports in 2023 totaled 3.171 million metric tons (MT), which was down 22% from the 4.04 million MT exported in 2022. According to data from the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), it was also the first time in five years total hay exports fell below 4 …

Calaway Trading, Inc. is an international exporter of agricultural commodity products. Since 1987, we have strived for excellence in every business transaction. This has afforded us the opportunity to become one of the ten largest exporters of hay from the Western United States to markets including Korea, Japan, China, and United Arab Emirates.

2019年1月22日 · Export markets demand high quality forages, whether alfalfa or grass hay types, which favor exporting production regions with good weather and technology for hay making. Improvements in hay packaging, inexpensive ocean transport systems, resource limitations, and imbalance of world trade have been major components driving this trend.

Hay is a growing international industry. The U.S. Forage Export Council (USFEC) consists of NHA members that are financially invested in compress facilities based in the United States and who actively sell/export baled fiber products to foreign countries.

2012年3月5日 · Rising global demand for premium forage products, along with higher prices, drove U.S. exports of hay to a record $1.25 billion in 2012. From 2008 to 2012, hay export value rose 93 percent while volume increased 39 percent.

2022年4月1日 · KENNEWICK — Nearly all U.S. hay exports, both alfalfa and grass, leave in containers loaded on to ships at West Coast ports. And nearly all of those are bound for dairy farms in Japan, Korea and — increasingly — China.

2019年3月15日 · While exports of hay are a minor issue for many U.S. alfalfa and grass hay growers, they are a key market for growers in the seven Western-most states. Worldwide, interest in the trade in forages has also risen substantially, with the most important markets in Asia and the Middle East.