When COVID-19 forced pork companies to close processing plants, some farmers predicted that it would force them to euthanize millions of hogs. But that scenario seems to not be happening.
. He says farmers made some quick adaptations--they converted older buildings into additional housing for hogs, fed the animals low-energy rations that kept them from gaining weight rapidly, and sent some of their animals to local butcher shops. Others hogs were shipped halfway across the country, from Minnesota to Pennsylvania or California, to processing plants that could handle them.acquired two 80-acre sites that could be used to compost truckloads of hogs.
In Iowa, the state is offering financial help to farmers who need to euthanize hogs. Farmers applied for funding to dispose of about 25,000 animals but have not yet told the state how many of them actually were euthanized. In mid-May, Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig Iowa Public Radio that farmers in his state had been forced to kill fewer than 5,000 market-ready hogs so far.
Hog industry officials say they've heard of few cases of euthanized hogs in other major pork-producing states. At the moment, the crisis appears to be ebbing. Most pork plants have resumed production, but Preisler says"it's too early to tell" whether farmers will be forced to kill more of their pigs. The plants, he says, are running at about 82 percent of their normal capacity,"but if we stay there, that's not good enough" to handle the backlog of hogs on farms.
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