Chapter 388 caught off guard
The management of ABCD is in a state of worry.
In Greenwood, Mississippi, Cargill Group in ABCD invested in a pig farm in the area, with daily dynamic inventory ranging from 370,000 to 450,000 live pigs.
Mississippi, with a flat terrain and a warm climate, is a very famous commercial grain and crop cultivation area in the United States.
Adamy, Bangji and Cargill in ABCD have invested in a large number of industries here, including corn cultivation, feed processing, oil processing, poultry and livestock breeding, deep processing of dairy products and meat processing.
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In addition, Smithfield Foods, the largest pig breeding company in North America, has also set up a large breeding base in Mississippi. This breeding base alone can generate 4.8 million to 5.2 million pigs annually.
The Mississippi River Basin, Texas and California are both core enterprises of American agriculture, especially the middle and lower reaches of the Mississippi River where the solar and hot water are very sufficient, which is very suitable for large-scale mechanized agriculture.
Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Missouri are all traditional agricultural areas, mechanized agriculture under the Great Plains, producing huge amounts of corn, soybeans, tobacco and cotton.
This is also the core of feed processing in North America, so pig and poultry farming is also established in the vast plains of the Mississippi River.
About 80% of pigs in North America are concentrated in this area.
Greenwood City.
Cargill’s pig farm is located on the plain 14 kilometers northwest of the city. Inside the modern pig farm, the management here is very strict and basically isolates the entry of foreign pathogens.
This is also the reason why ABCD dares to maliciously cause trouble in backward areas, because they are confident that their disease protection system can effectively isolate swine fever from infecting their farms.
In this highly protective pig farm, more than fifty workers are working.
William, who was in charge of epidemic prevention and control, was about to chat with his boyfriend online, but was interrupted by a rush knock on the door.
"William, William, something happened!"
When William opened the door, he saw Mark, the leader of the feeding team, with a terrified look on his face: "What's wrong?"
"Many pigs have purple spots on their bodies!"
"Isn't it just purple spots..." William, who was casually speaking, was stunned and asked in an instant: "Purple spots? Are there any other symptoms?"
"I didn't observe carefully, so I'm here to call you." Mark complained in his heart: Are you a veterinarian or is I a veterinarian?
William, who became nervous, immediately brought his toolbox and followed Mark to the inside of the pig farm. As soon as he arrived at the pig house area, he saw the talkative workers.
"Get a little bit aside." Mark shouted angrily.
Suddenly, the workers immediately dispersed.
William carefully looked at several big white pigs lying on the ground and found that some purple spots appeared on his ears, hind legs and belly.
I measured the temperature of many pigs with a thermos, and the temperature has reached 39 to 41 degrees Celsius.
It also has signs of vomiting and bloody stool.
Seeing these clinical symptoms, William was 100% sure. He immediately took out the phone and called the factory manager: "Anland, come to the factory immediately. We are in trouble, it's a big problem."
When the factory manager heard William's tone so urgent and serious, he immediately drove from Greenwood's home.
When Annland reached the factory in Greenwood City, William had already completed the preliminary statistics, with as many as 163 pigs with obvious symptoms.
It seems that this number is not much, but the swine fever virus is very fast infectious and has a 5-28-day incubation period.
There are 163 diseased pigs with obvious symptoms in the pig farm, which means that the swine fever has been completely spread throughout the pig farm, and the pig farm is basically done.
"William, what's going on?"
At a loss William handed Anland a statistical report he had just completed: "Swine fever, swine fever infection broke out inside our factory."
"What?" Andrena's fat body trembled involuntarily and grabbed the document in a hurry. After reading the contents above, he rushed into the pig house area.
Several of the most obvious sick pigs destroyed Anland's last fantasy.
Anland, who was so scared that he was unruly, walked around and shouted nervously: "Oh Maika! What should I do?"
William, who had calmed down, suggested with a frustrated expression: "Anland, report to the headquarters! We can't suppress such a thing."
"Hu..." After taking a few deep breaths, Anland finally calmed down a little. He nodded helplessly: "OK, you prepare the materials, we will report this to the headquarters immediately."
If it is another epidemic, the two can work together to suppress it, but the outbreak of African swine fever is very rapid. It is estimated that the pig farm will be wiped out in less than a month.
At present, their factory's inventory is 3983.63 million heads. With such a huge number, they have no way to hide it.
After all, Cargill’s headquarters is not a fool. Big pigs are sent to slaughter every day in the pig farm, and the piglets come in. It’s okay if you have an abnormality in one or two days. Over time, the headquarters will notice the problem.
Just as the Greenwood pig farm reported a swine fever outbreak.
Swine fever has also occurred in many pig farms in several surrounding states, and large-scale outbreaks have inevitably arrived.
ABCD and Smithfield Foods, in the pig farms in the area, were instantly facing a big enemy. Pig farms with obvious swine fever infection currently account for 31.6% of the pig inventory in North America, which is simply catastrophic.
Soon Adammy, Bunge and Cargill held a secret meeting in New York.
But before they could discuss a reason, large-scale swine fever occurred in pig farms invested by ABCD in various parts of the world.
Cargill's Mississippi branch.
A professional livestock disease prevention and control team came to Greenwood's breeding base. They were very surprised by this sudden outbreak of swine fever and were eager to find out the root cause.
Owen Alexander, the leader of the joint prevention and control work group and Cargill’s animal disease prevention consultant, looked at the situation at Greenwood Breeding Base and showed a confused expression.
The experts from Adammi and Bunge were also confused.
According to the protection level of this pig farm, the input of other foreign pathogens is basically isolated. Where did those swine fever viruses come from?
An expert in charge of testing, holding a test report, ran over with a serious expression: "Dr. Alexander, look at this."
After receiving the test report, Alexander hurriedly looked through it. Seeing the rows of data, his pupils suddenly shrank: "It turned out to be feed? What's going on? Why does the feed have viruses?"
Hearing this situation, the Adammi and Bunge experts on the side suddenly changed their faces. They hurriedly called the headquarters and asked them to test the stock of feed.
More than ten hours later.
ABCD conducted a rough test on their stocked feed worldwide, and found that 5 to 8% of the feed were found, and residues of the swine fever virus were found.
Moreover, some of the feed has been sold around the world, which means that customers who purchase their feed may be affected.
ABCD felt a chill in an instant, and they immediately activated the emergency plan to suppress the matter.
Chapter completed!