Pork industry running practice ASF drills

Pork industry running practice ASF drills

Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue says the agency is daily tracking

African Swine Fever and encouraging vigilance in the U.S.

“From an alarm standpoint, we’re working with our states in developing a network of early detection and certainly the most important thing we have is our APHIS workers working at the borders to make sure these products don’t come into the U.S.”         

Mary Kelpinski with the Michigan Pork Producers Association says emergency training drills are taking place across the country to help farmers and state officials identify biosecurity risk areas.

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