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Actuality: African Swine Fever Making Ag. Trade Forecasts Difficult

Sep 11, 2019

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Deputy USDA Chief Economist Warren Preston saying that trade disputes are not the only things making it hard to forecast agricultural exports and trade patterns. There's also African Swine Fever.

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