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A new ASF testing programme will be introduced across the US as the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) steps up its defences against the virus. 

Tulip agriculture director Andrew Saunders has urged producers to be patient over pig prices.

The latest phase of AHDB's Midweek Meals campaign resulted in almost £12 million of additional pork sales, according to data from Kantar Worldpanel.

Global pork prices will soar over the next few years on the back of Asia’s ‘incredible' African swine fever crisis’, according to Gira analyst Richard Brown.

The comments continue to come in on the price situation. "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck," the latest one suggests.

ASF has been confirmed at a slaughterhouse in Hong Kong, but plans to cull about 6,000 pigs have been hampered by meat traders, according to reports.

Pig producers have been having their say on the NPA forum about the current price situation. 

The Red Tractor deadline for uploading antibiotic data for the first quarter of 2019 onto the eMB-Pigs database is May 12.

The NPA is to press for a pig supply chain code of conduct as part of a drive to introduce more transparency in the supply chain.

Scientists have published details of research showing 'promising' signs that a vaccine could be developed to help stem the spread of ASF in wild boar.