# Foot-and-mouth disease: Impacts would go far beyond huge livestock losses - MPI report's warning - NZ Herald

> A New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries report warns that a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak would force large-scale culling of livestock, including millions of cattle, sheep and lambs. It also estimates the outbreak would push up world commodity prices, lower the NZ dollar and threaten more than 80,000 jobs.

- Date: 2022-07-26 · published 2022-07-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: disease · region New Zealand · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/40440-foot-and-mouth-disease-impacts-would-go-far-beyond-huge-livestock-losses-mpi
- Commodities: [Live Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/LCATTLE.md), [Milk (Class III)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/MILK.md), [Canadian Dollar (CAD per USD)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/USDCAD.md)

## Why it matters

A hypothetical FMD outbreak in a major exporter would cut meat supply and trade, lifting global red meat prices and feed demand for export markets, though the risk is still hypothetical.

## Read by commodity

- MILK: bullish ▲
- USDCAD: neutral
- LCATTLE: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LCATTLE | 2021-03-01 | [Beef prices soar in Kyenjojo over foot and mouth disease](https://feedsoft.ai/events/48057-beef-prices-soar-in-kyenjojo-over-foot-and-mouth-disease.md) | +2.6% | +3.1% |
| LCATTLE | 2025-12-08 | [Livestock disease worries haunt farmers across Europe](https://feedsoft.ai/events/15945-livestock-disease-worries-haunt-farmers-across-europe.md) | +2.9% | +6.8% |
| LCATTLE | 2026-03-16 | [South Korea on highest alert as 3 major livestock diseases spread nationwide \| The Straits Times](https://feedsoft.ai/events/15924-south-korea-on-highest-alert-as-3-major-livestock-diseases-spread-nationwide.md) | -0.4% | +6.0% |
| LCATTLE | 2025-07-10 | [Secretary Rollins Takes Decisive Action and Shuts Down U.S. Southern Border Ports to Livestock Trade due to further Northward Spread of New World Screwworm in Mexico \| USDA](https://feedsoft.ai/events/23699-secretary-rollins-takes-decisive-action-and-shuts-down-u-s-southern-border.md) | +2.6% | +6.8% |
| LCATTLE | 2025-04-26 | [US could restrict Mexican livestock imports over screwworm worry, official says \| Reuters](https://feedsoft.ai/events/25079-us-could-restrict-mexican-livestock-imports-over-screwworm-worry-official-says.md) | +0.4% | +3.8% |
| MILK | 2023-04-04 | [India's milk imports soar as disease hits local cattle stock \| Reuters](https://feedsoft.ai/events/12311-india-s-milk-imports-soar-as-disease-hits-local-cattle-stock-reuters.md) | +3.1% | +3.1% |
| MILK | 2022-07-28 | [Five things to know about FMD and LSD \| Meat & Livestock Australia](https://feedsoft.ai/events/40437-five-things-to-know-about-fmd-and-lsd-meat-and-livestock-australia.md) | -10.5% | -10.9% |
| MILK | 2020-10-11 | [Impact of lumpy skin disease on local economy \| The Arunachal Times](https://feedsoft.ai/events/50590-impact-of-lumpy-skin-disease-on-local-economy-the-arunachal-times.md) | +2.2% | +11.0% |

## Sources

- nzherald.co.nz: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/companies/agribusiness/foot-and-mouth-disease-impacts-would-go-far-beyond-huge-livestock-losses-mpi-reports-warning/VD3JI3RWQVTJROPEKCCKHCY3GA/

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