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‘Million Dollar’ Hogs - A
Blow To Pork Industry
Who ever heard of two pigs
costing an estimated $1 million?
State and U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) veterinary
officials concerned with hog
cholera eradication recently
came up with an estimate nearly
that large.
No, it wasn’t the price paid for
two grand champion purebred
boars. Rather, it was the ap
proximate cost to the American
swine industry for the marketing
of two scrub hogs that initially
sold for 50 cents each, according
to Dr. Francis J. Mulhern, Ad
ministrator of USDA’s Animal
and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS). Dr. Mulhern a
veterinarian, also serves as
Chairman of the Secretary of
Agriculture’s advisory com
mittee on hog cholera
eradication.
Barring unforeseen develop
ments, 49 states will be classified
as “hog cholera free” by mid-
January 1974. But the hog cholera
advisory committee - comprised
of 12 business and professional
people with excellent knowledge
of swine health - recently issued
a warning about “culls” or “junk
hogs”.
According to Dr. Howard W.
Dunne from Pennsylvania State
University, a member of the
advisory committee, the
marketing of culls has recently
become financially rewarding to
some hog traders and dealers. •
Other than scrubby appearance,
these hogs may show no telltale
signs of infection. Yet, they can
be disease carriers, capable of
silently spreading infection.
The risk of culls spreading hog
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cholera is not as great if they go
direct to slaughter without
coming in contact with other
swine destined for sale as feeder
and breeder animals. Rather, the
invitation for trouble comes when
cull hogs are diverted from
slaughtering plants to farms or
feedlots, Dr. Dunne notes. Swine
herds at these locations are
highly susceptible to hog cholera.
The two 50-cent hogs in
question were diverted from a
slaughter - for a little extra
fattening - in the fall of 1972.
They wound up costing state and
federal governments over
$lOO,OOO in indemnity payments
alone, to compensate producers
for swine herds that had to be
destroyed because of hog
cholera.
“Ultimately, the.cost was more
like $1 million”, said Dr.
Mulhern, “if all losses to the
swine industry - direct and m-‘
direct - are counted. For in
stance, feeder pig producers in
the Southeast find their main
buyer markets in corn-producing
states of the Midwest. In 1972, hog
cholera quarantines in the
Southeast and Midwest curbed
this normally huge market flow
for weeks, while emergency
eradication measures were in
effect.
“Merely passing more state or
federal marketing regulations
won’t solve the problems”. Dr.
Mulhern warns. “It’s going to
take a change of attitude by
many in the swine industry.
Instead of viewing culls as the
potential source of a few more
pennies of profit with a little
extra fat on their bones, we’ve
got to treat them for what they
really are ... potential disease
factories . .. and get nd of them
accordingly.
“In other words, we need
concerted pressure from every
segment of the swine industry to
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stop the diversion of cull pigs
from market for a few added
weeks of feed. Enough pressure
must be brought to bear upon the
few who engage in this practice to
make sure that all culls go direct
to slaughter . . . and nowhere
else!”
Dr. Dunne and other advisory
committee members agree on the
need to apply this pressure, in
dicating the industry as a whole
will pay if we don’t. For the
average hogman who personally
strives to maintain a healthy
herd, that cost can be extremely
high if hog cholera strikes across
the neighbor’s fence.
Speaking for the advisory
committee, Dr. Mulhern said,
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cholera eradication job
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