Turkiye: Livestock and Products Annual

In 2025, Turkiye’s cattle inventories are projected to fall by 4 percent, reaching 15 million head. The dairy cattle population is expected to continue its downward trend in 2025 due to increased cow slaughters driven by low farmgate prices for raw milk. In 2024, total cattle imports are estimated at 550,000 head, down 32 percent from 2023. The 2024 estimate assumes that imports will be mostly feeder cattle because of the government’s support of the feeder cattle industry. Unfortunately, while U.S. live cattle exports to Turkiye were set to see a record year in 2024, following the discovery of HPAI in some lactating dairy cattle herds in the United States, Turkiye placed a ban on imports of live cattle from the US in April 2024. For 2024, beef imports are expected to reach a record 80,000 MT, 131 percent higher than the previous year, due to low domestic production and in an effort to regulate beef prices at slaughterhouses.