The North American hog industry has gone quiet on the ASF front, but that isn’t because the risk of infection from offshore is any less severe.
As Dr. Anna Forseth, director of animal health with the National Pork Producers Council, tells us in this video, after years of preparation for an ASF outbreak, producers and industry are just keeping themselves ready for any possible outbreak.
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