Despite an unsettled trade climate, exports of U.S. beef and pork continue at a brisk pace, creating jobs and putting more dollars into livestock farmers’ pockets, executives with the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) said last week.

“We are very pleased with the results we have seen in red meat exports so far this year,” Phillip Seng, an Iowa native who is USMEF’s chief executive officer,...