USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued a Federal Order to suspend the movement of swine and swine products from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to the mainland United States.
National Pork Producers Council chief veterinarian Dr. Liz Wagstrom tells Brownfield the order is in response to the late July discovery of African swine fever in the Dominican Republic.
“That’s being put in place to protect the U.S.
