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Large Reductions Estimated in Hog Supply due to PEDV

2014-03-03 23:38:00| National Hog Farmer

By Steve R. Meyer, Ph.D., Paragon Economics, Inc., Adel, IA I have been hesitant to estimate supply reductions due to PEDV due to the incomplete nature of the data that has been made available through animal disease diagnostic labs. Those shortcomings are not the labs faults, just the nature of a new disease that is not reportable to state or federal veterinary authorities. But the number of cases reported in recent weeks and growing comfort with some of the loss numbers compel me to estimate reductions for this summer and they are pretty amazing. read more

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