National Ag News

Legislators and pork producers want US Customs and Border
Protection to ramp up their efforts to prevent an African Swine Fever outbreak
in the US.

During a House Ag Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture hearing on Tuesday National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) president David Herring testified that they’d like to see appropriations for 600 additional US Customs and Border Protection Agricultural Inspectors at US borders.  “Those agricultural specialists would help prevent (the disease from entering the US – and we think prevention is the number one key,” he says. 

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