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Nebraska exports topping records, Ricketts says trade remains top priority
Nebraska’s corn and beef exports are on a record-setting pace for 2021 and Governor Pete Ricketts wants to keep up the momentum by expanding the state’s trade markets.
“While we’ve not been able to do trade missions, I have done a number of virtual embassy meetings with the embassies in Malaysia, Israel and South Korea,” Ricketts says. “We’ve done a virtual trade meeting with a Vietnamese delegation. It’s really about continuing to develop those relationships.”
Ricketts says the state exported more corn this year in six months than all of 2020 combined, and as for beef, “In May we exported more beef in May than any other month in our history and through the first six months of this year we’ve exported more beef then we’ve ever had then any other six month period previously.”
He says as international travel resumes, Nebraska will make in person trade missions a priority.
Ricketts spoke with reporters last week in Omaha, NE at CLAAS headquarters.
