Dermot Hayes, professor, was quoted in a Jan. 23 Country Journal story, "People, product and protocol—Biosecurity and African swine fever."
Dermot Hayes, co-director of the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute at Iowa State University, conducted a study examining the economic impact to the U.S. pork industry of an ASF outbreak in the United States.
“In the first year the U.S. pork industry would lose $8 billion, which is mainly due to lost sales due to exports that we won’t have in place after a disease like that breaks,” Hayes said.
Hayes was quoted in a Feb. 2 Red River Farm Network story, "China Could Still Be in the Market for U.S. Pork."
“In November 2019, China was the largest buyer of U.S. pork. We hope to see that continue,” says Hayes. “The demand is there, but it isn’t making its way into live hog prices yet. U.S. pork production is growing, in part, because people are anticipating big exports and good prices. We’re going to have a real problem with packing plant capacity in the fall.”