The newly elected vice president of the National
Pork Producers Council suggests the response to coronavirus will help protect
the U.S. against African swine fever.
Terry Wolters, a pork producer from Pipestone in southwest Minnesota, says the threat of ASF lessens with fewer people traveling abroad.
“A lot of our fear in cross-contamination would be something that came in from a foreign country, food products that potentially would have the virus in them.”
If African swine fever enters the U.S., he tells Brownfield he’s confident in USDA’s recently announced response plan.
