Source: Audrey Conklin, FOX BUSINESS, 1/9/20


U.S. pork producers missed out on selling meat to China in 2019 after the majority of the country's pig population was destroyed by an African swine fever epidemic. While 55 percent of China's pigs were lost to the epidemic in 2019, the U.S.-China trade war and a 72 percent tariff on imports of U.S. pork for the majority of the year that has since been withdrawn prevented U.S. pork producers from selling to a market with a high demand for the meat.

For more of this story, click here.