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Article: NPPC asks USDA to help U.S. pork producers.
- Article from:
- The Food & Fiber Letter
- Article date:
- May 11, 2009
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The National Pork Producers Council is calling on USDA to help the U.S. pork industry deal with the negative effects of what initially was misnamed "swine" influenza but now is known as the H1N1 flu.
Pork producers, who prior to the announcement of the current flu outbreak already were losing money, have seen losses accelerate to an average of $17.69 on each hog marketed as of May 1, according to an NPPC letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. Total losses reached $7.2 million a day between April 24 and May 1.
To help stem the losses U.S. pork producers are incurring, NPPC has asked Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to:
* Implement a USDA ...