Red meat export numbers for October showed progress over the previous year, despite the ongoing global economic downturn. Pork exports, in particular, did extremely well, posting the third-largest monthly volume on record that equates to a 46 percent volume increase over exports from October of 2007 and a 55.5 percent increase in value.rnPork and pork variety meat exports in October totaled 192,940 metric tons (425.4 million lbs.) valued at $487 million - a new record for monthly export value. Export volume increased 18 percent over the previous month and trails only May and June of 2008 for most pork exported in a single month.rnFor January through October, exports were up 67 percent to 1.7 million metric tons (3.8 billion lbs.), with value surpassing $4.1 billion.
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