date:Mar 14, 2014
from spreading, Parker added.
Senators from North Carolina and Michigan, two of the states with reported cases of PEDv, on Thursday urged the USDA to approve disaster assistance for small pork producers affected by a deadly virus that has killed more than four million pigs across the United States in the past year.
North Carolina is the second biggest hog producer in the U.S., behind top state Iowa, which is also affected by the virus.
Pork processors are finding it more difficult to purchas