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Korea will continue to expand its cattle inventories and consume more domestic and imported beef during the remainder of 2019 and into 2020.

The United States continues to be a top supplier of forage to South Korea.

Infographic exploring the growth of U.S. potato products exports over the last 10 years.

Korea, a producer of mainly the “Singo” variety, is a major exporter to the United States accounting for a total of 9,700 metric tons (MT) in MY 2014/15 under the supervision of an APHIS preclearance

Professor Yang, an invited speaker at the 4th annual Roundtable on DPRK Agriculture hosted by FAS/Seoul, presented a paper entitled “Marketization in North Korea: Implications for Agriculture,”...

Imports of American food and agricultural products into Korea in 2015 are forecast to total $7.2 billion, down 11 percent from the previous year...

On November 13, 2015, Statistics Korea (KOSTAT) released its revised 2015 rice production estimate of 4.33 million metric tons.

Post revises rice production upward, despite a decline in planted area, based on record average yields of 5.33 MT/ha, due to favorable weather in September.

In 2014, $56 billion in local dairy product sales were one-percent higher than 2013.

Korea’s production of beef is expected to decrease in 2015 and 2016 due to reduced cattle supplies. At the same time consumption will increase slightly allowing for greater imports including U.S. beef

In Marketing Year (MY) 2016, chicken production is forecast to increase slightly by two percent to 848,000 MT from 832,000 MT in MY 2015, due to higher parent stock (PS) and broiler inventories....

While several proposals to expand biotech labeling are still pending in the National Assembly, MFDS announced its plan in early 2015 to expand mandatory biotech labeling to include all products...