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Ag News: China’s Other Proteins
**With African swine fever carving such a big chunk out of China’s hog herds, the world’s biggest meat consumer is turning to other protein sources.
Hefty beef shipments from Australia seem to indicate people in China are already switching away from pork to beef.
According to agweb.com, Chinese beef imports have surged, with the world’s largest pork market buying 128,920 tons in April, 75% more than a year earlier. Meanwhile, the price of beef has risen, 6% higher than in August when the disease was first reported.
**Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue is applauding President Trump's signing of the disaster relief bill that provides $19 billion in assistance to states and territories hit by flooding, hurricanes, wildfires and other natural disasters.
Perdue says Congress provided much needed resources to assist farmers, ranchers and producers dealing with extensive damage to their operations caused by natural disasters.
He adds, the President is committed to helping America's farmers get back on their feet following recent natural disasters.
**Families of Mexican heritage are achieving a productive entry to the farming and shipping of strawberries in California.
The California Strawberry Commission’s Carolyn O’Donnell tells Agri-Pulse, a century ago, most of the strawberry growers were Japanese-Americans, and now two-thirds of strawberry growers in California are of Mexican-American descent.
O’Donnell says we’ve seen over the past century the hand-planted, hand-weeded, and hand-harvested strawberries have been a crop of opportunity.
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