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Frigorífico Tacuarembó, an MBRF group plant (formerly Marfrig) and the country’s largest in terms of slaughter volume, became the second Uruguayan plant to lose access to the Chinese market this year, after Frigorífico Santa Jacinto.
Aug 7, 2026
According to official figures, cattle slaughter in July was the highest so far this year, at 1.095 million head, 1.7% above the previous month, which had been the highest until then. However, it remained 12.2% below July 2025, which was in turn the highest monthly figure of last year.
Aug 7, 2026
Between January and July 2026, 7.118 million cattle were slaughtered, 9.5% less than in the same period of 2025. Steers posted the largest relative decline, down almost 16%, while cows fell 11%, heifers 10%, and the largest category, young steers, declined 8%.
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Frigorífico Tacuarembó, an MBRF group plant (formerly Marfrig) and the country’s largest in terms of slaughter volume, became the second Uruguayan plant to lose access to the Chinese market this year, after Frigorífico Santa Jacinto.
According to official figures, cattle slaughter in July was the highest so far this year, at 1.095 million head, 1.7% above the previous month, which had been the highest until then. However, it remained 12.2% below July 2025, which was in turn the highest monthly figure of last year.
Between January and July 2026, 7.118 million cattle were slaughtered, 9.5% less than in the same period of 2025. Steers posted the largest relative decline, down almost 16%, while cows fell 11%, heifers 10%, and the largest category, young steers, declined 8%.
Brazilian beef exports felt the impact in July of shipments to China coming to a halt after the 1.106 million-ton quota available for this year was filled.
Brazilian beef exports to China contracted sharply in July as shipments to that destination came to a halt once the 2026 quota was filled.
The United States and Russia for frozen beef, together with Chile for chilled beef purchases, are the destinations showing the strongest growth potential for Brazilian exporters now that China’s 2026 quota has been reached.
Brazil is rapidly gaining ground in the Indonesian market, both for beef and beef offal.
The Brazilian beef industry believes the country should retain a share of close to 43% in the allocation of the beef quota established under the Mercosur-European Union agreement.
For the first time in 43 months, Australian beef exports declined compared with the same month a year earlier.
