Touch the Soil News #1479 (Feature photo – pigs – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International) China is fighting an almost losing battle with the African Swine Fever and the nations withering pork supplies. Estimates are that China may have to cull over 200 million pigs this year. In attempts to fill the shortages and…
Touch the Soil News #1448 (Feature photo – Rabobank Headquarters in the Netherlands – By Michielverbeek – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=454214944.0 FoodMarket News brings us the latest report from Rabobank – one of the world’s largest agricultural banks about the growing destabilization in meat prices caused by the African Swine Fever. Rabobank estimates…
Touch the Soil News #1401 (Feature photo – African Swine Fever Virus – CC BY-SA 3.0, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18630318) Confinement animal feeding operations (where there are concentrations of pigs), the global pork meat trade and the spreading African Swine Fever are creating an unprecedented food tremor. News about how African Swine Fever is not contagious to people…
Positive Future #475 (Feature photo – USDA Seal – public domain) Agri Pulse journalist Sara Wyant uses the term “staggering losses” to explain what is going on in China and Asia as relates to losses of pigs due to the African Swine Fever. If you are a small local pig farmer and serving local markets…
Touch the Soil News #1338 (Feature photo – Pig Farm – Public Domain NRCS) FoodMarket News brings us updates on the African Swine Fever that is decimating Vietnam’s pig herds. The virus was detected in February of this year and has already spread to 42 of the country’s 63 provinces. Agricultural officials in the United…
Touch the Soil News #1327 (Feature photo – Pig Farming –CCA SA 2.0 Generic) We’ve been covering the unnerving spread of African Swine Fever as it began uncontrollable spreading least year in China and Southeast Asia. Now, the military of Vietnam is being called out to cull (destroy and remove) pig herds that have been…
