Source: SOUTHERN FARM NETWORK, 8/30/19

The Department of Agriculture and the pork industry will hold a foreign animal disease exercise next month as the the industry is working on a “full function” exercise that will be conducted the week of September 23. The effort will focus on a fictional outbreak of African swine fever and the subsequent response by federal and state authorities, along with the rest of the pork industry. Industry leaders say the exercise should better prepare the U.S. pork industry and its stakeholders in the event of an ...

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