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Weekly Overview: Counting the Cost of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea

2014-04-14 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

GLOBAL - With piglet losses from Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED) at around five per cent for the six months to February, it's hard to make sense of the sky-high pig price in the US when farrowings and slaughter weights are up, writes Jackie Linden. The virus is also affecting the pig industries in other countries, particularly in Canada and Japan, while Brazil, China and the UK have announced renewed efforts to keep the virus out of their territories over the last week.

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