Quarterly update: All change as ASF arrives in Germany

Predictions are hard to make in a year when Covid-19 as well as African Swine Fever keep dominating headlines in the world of pigs. In his quarterly analysis, Dr John Strak considers how the discovery of ASF-infected wild boar in Germany is already affecting global pig prices. It has been said before, but it bears saying again: these are extraordinary times. I was directly involved, as an analyst and advisor, with the incidence of “mad cow disease” in the mid-1990s, and the Foot-and-Mouth D