From canines at U.S. entry points to workers on the farm, biosecurity is not taken lightly across the pork industry with foreign animal disease prevention and response being a top priority.
“I feel like our industry in our country is doing a great job so far. Otherwise, I think we would have had it by now,” says Matt Gent, president-elect of Iowa Pork Producers Association. “So, we're doing our job, whether that's at our airports or our borders or even at the barn level.”
As China still works to recover following an African swine fever (ASF) outbreak starting in 2018, Michelle Rook reports on AgDay, the event serves as a wake-up call to U.S. producers to up their FAD game.
“Obviously the implications of ASF, if it hits the U.S. pork industry, expands much further beyond just the pork industry, right. I mean, grain farmers alike. I mean, it would be certainly be traumatic to the state of Iowa or Midwest economies in general,” explains Matt Romoser, Iowa pork producer and Iowa State University Extension swine field specialist.
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