The pork market in Germany after a year of ASF infections

Exactly a year ago today, the first ASF case in Germany was officially established in a wild boar in the Spree-Neisse district. There are now 2,073 ASF cases confirmed by the Friederich Loeffler Institute in wild boars, 1,622 of them in Brandenburg and 448 in Saxony. In addition, there are three ASF finds in domestic pig stocks in Brandenburg, two in small holdings and one in an organic farm with 200 pigs. 1,000 km of permanent fences installed in Brandenburg to date In Brandenburg alone, seven core areas have since been identified and fenced in in the districts near the border with Poland. Four double-fenced white zones with a width of up to 5 km were created, in which all wild boars are to be removed with live traps and through hunting measures. And a permanent fence has been installed along the entire border with Poland and a second permanent fence is under construction. The aim is to set up a white zone along the entire border to prevent further ASF-infected wild boars from ...