
The University of Minnesota and Swine Health Information Center's Swine Disease Global Surveillance Project tracks global swine diseases, including African swine fever. An interview explains how ASF spreads through infected wild boar and pigs and why USDA bans swine byproduct imports from ASF-positive countries.
The surveillance effort is informational and does not itself change supply or demand, though it highlights the risk of ASF reaching the US herd.
After 69 past neutral disease events, Lean 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.