China lifts pork ban
Wisconsin NewsWisconsin agriculture officials say hog farmers should benefit significantly now that China has lifted its ban on American pork. A year ago, fear over the H1N1 virus – aka the swine flu -- eventually cost the U.S. hog industry more than $1 billion in sales worldwide.
Wisconsin agriculture officials say hog farmers should benefit significantly now that China has lifted its ban on American pork. A year ago, fear over the H1N1 virus – aka the swine flu -- eventually cost the U.S. hog industry more than $1 billion in sales worldwide.
China was one of several nations that closed its doors to U.S. pork, and now is the last to reopen them.
Grant County farmer Doug Wolf is with the National Pork Producers Council. He says most of those countries opened back up as soon as it was proven that American pork was safe.
Wolf says with China re-opening its doors, meat packers are already moving product back into the country. He says during the Beijing Olympics, China was the number two importer of American meat, but exports fell last year, and the potential is there to increase exports of pork to China.
Wisconsin is home to an estimated 1,200 hog farmers.
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