The USDA will assign $12 million to fourteen projects in eight states as part of the Feral Swine Eradication and Control Pilot Program. The USDA will combine the resources of the Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The director of the NRCS stated, "these awards enable landowners to address the threat that feral swine pose a natural resource and agricultural. The funding will be applied to education, outreach and trapping in pilot project areas. This motivation to eradicate feral hogs in the U.S. is myopic and denies the real danger of African swine fever (ASF).
The impact of feral hogs on exports is clearly indicated by the loss of the China market by Germany as a result of the emergence of African swine fever in wild boars. Exports from Germany to China attained 233,000 metric tons valued at $0.8 billion during the first half of 2020. The loss of this market has severely affected domestic production of hogs in Germany through restructuring of cooperatives and integrations.
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is estimated that in 2020 pork exports from the U.S. will attain 1,720,000 metric tons representing a net 6 percent of annual production. The introduction of African swine fever into the U.S. with extension to the feral hog population would represent a catastrophe for the hog industry irrespective of whether or not the disease spread to commercial operations.
There is no definitive number of feral hogs in the U.S but estimates suggest over 10 million now in 39 states. Absent an aggressive and effective campaign of eradication requiring more funding than planned by the Federal agencies, the pork industry is at risk of losing exports if only ASF emerges in the wild boar population. The additional direct and indirect and consequential losses if ASF were to spread to backyard and then inevitably to commercial operations would be catastrophic.