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Problems being that the disease is still going and not under control.

Also whole herds are being culled, producers would have to buy not just breed and some are switching to other livestock.

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I don't dispute any of that. I only wanted to head off a possible misconception that the headline might have lead people to believe that losing "one quarter" was going to be hard to recover from. It's definitely bad, but also easy and quick to recover from.

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