US pig herd largely recovered from PEDv

Latest figures from USDA’s hogs and pigs inventory show that the country’s pig herd on 1 March was 7% larger than a year earlier, at 65.9 million head. A year before, the PEDv outbreak was close to its peak and had led to high levels of piglet mortality and, hence, a dramatic reduction in pigs being kept for slaughter. The extent of the recovery is emphasised by the fact that the 2015 figure is higher than that for 1 March 2013, before the PEDv outbreak began. This reflects a larger sow her