Without explanation, Saudi Arabian authorities abruptly announced a ban on imports of poultry meat from 11 processing plants in Brazil.

Exporting eggs is more sustainable than shipping the grain to feed layers and there are plenty of markets hungry to boost their egg consumption.

At the end of 2010, the Brazilian Poultry Association and the Brazilian Chicken Producers and Exporters Association merged to create the UBABEF. Then in 2014 they joined the Brazilian Association of Pork Producers and Exporters and created the powerful entity of the Brazilian Animal Protein Association (ABPA), involving chicken, eggs, swine and poultry breeders. 

The outlook for U.S. poultry exports in the coming year is positive as the EU struggles to manage widespread highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreaks, particularly in northern and western countries.

Just a few days ago the merging of Canadian Pacific Railway and Kansas City Southern was announced, bringing to the market the first railway system connecting the three countries of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

Brazil may be better known for its broiler exports than its overseas egg sales but, as Easter approaches, I thought that it might be worth taking a look at how many eggs the country sells overseas.