# Animals farmed: pigs cloned by robots, horsemeat trial and bird flu culls | Farming | The Guardian

> An ASF case was found on a farm over 300 miles from other registered cases and just four miles from the French border. The text notes that biosecurity has made ASF less deadly in Germany and Italy than in China.

- Date: 2022-06-13 · published 2022-06-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: disease · region Europe · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/16272-animals-farmed-pigs-cloned-by-robots-horsemeat-trial-and-bird-flu-culls-farming
- Commodities: [Lean Hogs](https://feedsoft.ai/c/HOGS.md)

## Why it matters

A new ASF detection near France raises the risk of wider European pork trade restrictions, which would pressure hog prices and reduce feed demand for pigs.

## Read by commodity

- HOGS: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HOGS | 2019-04-27 | [Farming veteran warns China's pig crisis only getting worse \| The Straits Times](https://feedsoft.ai/events/59589-farming-veteran-warns-china-s-pig-crisis-only-getting-worse-the-straits-times.md) | -1.3% | -0.1% |
| HOGS | 2019-07-02 | [Millions of small pig farmers in Asia threatened by swine fever](https://feedsoft.ai/events/57974-millions-of-small-pig-farmers-in-asia-threatened-by-swine-fever.md) | -2.3% | +11.3% |
| HOGS | 2018-10-24 | [African swine fever hits Chinese pork industry in run-up to New Year \| China \| The Guardian](https://feedsoft.ai/events/62433-african-swine-fever-hits-chinese-pork-industry-in-run-up-to-new-year-china-the.md) | +3.1% | -0.5% |
| HOGS | 2023-06-29 | [Pig outlook: Lean hog futures bulls keeping price uptrend alive
						 \| The Pig Site](https://feedsoft.ai/events/35638-pig-outlook-lean-hog-futures-bulls-keeping-price-uptrend-alive-the-pig-site.md) | +4.9% | +9.8% |
| HOGS | 2018-11-29 | [China mulls stockpiling pork to support farmers hit by swine fever](https://feedsoft.ai/events/62040-china-mulls-stockpiling-pork-to-support-farmers-hit-by-swine-fever.md) | -1.2% | +0.3% |

## Sources

- theguardian.com: http://theguardian.com/animals-farmed/2022/jun/13/animals-farmed-pigs-cloned-by-robots-horsemeat-trial-and-bird-flu-culls

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