Spread of disease has big effect on markets

By Rebekah Starick - Rural Directions
June 9 2019 - 3:41pm
CLOSELY CONNECTED: The relationship between a livestock and biosecurity disaster and grain markets is not as distant as many might think.
CLOSELY CONNECTED: The relationship between a livestock and biosecurity disaster and grain markets is not as distant as many might think.

African swine fever - which is fatal to pigs but cannot be passed on to people - has been sweeping across many pork-producing provinces in China since the first outbreak in late 2018.

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