Dan Halstrom, President and CEO of the U.S. Meat Export Federation, gave us an update on the status of U.S. beef and pork exports. Beef exports had a solid first quarter, but pork exports haven’t fared as well due mostly to a 20 percent retaliatory duty on most pork entering Mexico. Halstrom talked about the importance of a new bilateral trade deal with Japan, as well as the worldwide concern over African Swine Fever.