A recent report from Rabobank projects half of China’s hog herd will be wiped out by African Swine Fever by 2020.
Dan Halstrom, with the US Meat Export Federation, says China’s live hog industry is in liquidation mode and that will lead to a global pork shortage. “Today the shortage is only on hogs,” he says. “The freezers are pretty full, but it will be just a matter of time before they work through that.
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