October 18, 2019
Dermot Hayes, professor, was interviewed for an Oct. 18 Iowa Farmer Today article, "States test readiness for disease outbreak."
Iowa State University ag economist Dermot Hayes says in the event of a foreign animal disease outbreak in the U.S., live hog prices will drop sharply over the near-term.
“When ASF (African Swine Fever) was discovered in Belgium, they lost all their export markets immediately, except those that are part of the European Union,” he says.