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Actuality: African Swine Fever Making Ag. Trade Forecasts Difficult

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.
 

Source : USDA


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