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What can pork producers do to preare for a Foreign Animal Disease Outbreak?

Aug 28, 2018

Video: What can pork producers do to preare for a Foreign Animal Disease Outbreak?

The recent cases of African swine fever (ASF) in China is a reminder of the negative impact that a trade-limiting animal disease can have on pork producers. Dr. Dermot Hayes, economist at Iowa State University, at the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (CARD FAPRI) estimates that the first year of an ASF outbreak in the United States would cost the pork industry $8 billion.