US - Inventories of meat in cold storage at mid-year were lower than a year ago, except for turkey, according to USDA-NASS (National Agriculture Statistics Service), reports Steiner Consulting Group, DLR Division, Inc.Although frozen meat quantities were down from twelve months earlier, they were higher than expected in most cases.Chicken inventories, which constitutes the largest amount of meat in freezers, increased by 23 million pounds during June, the biggest June increase in ten years. Half of the increase was accounted for by leg quarters and the other half came in the "other" category.

　　據(jù)DLR Division股份有限公司施泰納咨詢小組報(bào)告，根據(jù)美國(guó)農(nóng)業(yè)部-國(guó)家農(nóng)業(yè)統(tǒng)計(jì)署(USDA-NASS)發(fā)布的數(shù)據(jù)顯示，除了火雞肉，美國(guó)2017年年中冷藏肉類儲(chǔ)量低于去年同期水平。盡管冷凍肉的儲(chǔ)量比十二個(gè)月前水平要低，但是絕大多數(shù)肉類數(shù)量要比預(yù)期更高。雞肉庫(kù)存是冷藏肉類儲(chǔ)量的最大主要組成，六月間增長(zhǎng)了2300萬(wàn)磅，這是十年來(lái)六月的最大增長(zhǎng)量。雞肉的一半儲(chǔ)量增長(zhǎng)是由于雞腿庫(kù)存增長(zhǎng)，還有一半增長(zhǎng)受益于其他部分?jǐn)?shù)量的增長(zhǎng)。