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State veterinarians from Iowa, Minnesota and Indiana discussed lessons from past avian influenza outbreaks at a March AASV conference. Their recommendations focus on planning, depopulation and quarantine practices for foreign animal disease.
The planning guidance is preparedness-focused and carries little direct price implication for hogs or feed in the near term.
After 69 past neutral disease events, HOGS moved a median -0.2% over 5 sessions (48% higher; middle half -1.4% to +1.5%), and -1.6% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.