Aussie ag industry weighs up swine fever risks and opportunities

Gregor Heard
Updated May 17 2019 - 11:10am, first published May 16 2019 - 3:00pm
African Swine Fever in China may throw up opportunities for Australian red meat producers.
African Swine Fever in China may throw up opportunities for Australian red meat producers.

WHILE the fall-out from the US / China trade war is nearly exclusively seen as being bad news for the Australian agriculture sector, feelings surrounding China's whopping outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) are much more nuanced.

Gregor Heard

Gregor Heard

National Grains Industry Reporter

Gregor Heard is ACM's national grains industry reporter, based in Horsham, Victoria. He has a wealth of knowledge surrounding the cropping sector through his 15 years in the role. Prior to that he was with the Fairfax network as a reporter with Stock & Land. Some of the major issues he has reported on during his time with the company include the deregulation of the export wheat market, the introduction of genetically modified crops and the fight to protect growers better from grain trader insolvencies. Still involved with the family farm he is passionate about rural Australia and its people and hopes to use his role to act as an advocate for those involved in the grain sector.

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