China’s hog industry continues to send mixed signals as the country tries to recover from African swine fever.
Livestock economist Steve Meyer with Partners for Production Agriculture suggests its almost impossible to know how successful China has been at controlling ASF and rebuilding domestic hog inventories.
“On the one hand we think, ‘well they lost all those pigs and are still rebuilding.’ But their prices have been extremely low for the last six months (and) they’ve been losing a lot of money.
