# Pork producers preparing for possible deadly disease outbreak learned lessons from bird flu

> Pork producers at the World Pork Expo in Des Moines warned that foot-and-mouth disease and classical or African swine fever could cause greater losses than the 2015 bird flu outbreak. Iowa alone exports about $1 billion of pork a year, and the industry is lobbying Congress for $150 million a year in preparedness funding.

- Date: 2017-06-07 · published 2017-06-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: disease · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/70380-pork-producers-preparing-for-possible-deadly-disease-outbreak-learned-lessons
- Commodities: [Lean Hogs](https://feedsoft.ai/c/HOGS.md), [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md), [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md)

## Why it matters

A major swine disease outbreak that closed US pork exports would cut hog demand and could weaken feed grain prices, though the risk remains hypothetical.

## Read by commodity

- SOY: bearish ▼
- CORN: bearish ▼
- HOGS: bearish ▼

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## Sources

- desmoinesregister.com: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/2017/06/07/pork-producers-preparing-possible-deadly-disease-outbreak-learned-lessons-bird-flu/378026001/

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