As China continues to rebuild its hog herd because of losses from African Swine Fever, a livestock economist says growth in the domestic pork market will slow down.
Scott Brown is with the University of Missouri.
“I worry as we get further into 2022, 2023, we’ll be in a situation where the Chinese really don’t a lot of U.S. pork,” he said.
Brown said China consumes about half of the world’s pork supply and it will take a while for Chinese pork production to catch back up with its demand.
