Tim Ryan, a Singapore-based market analyst with trade group Meat & Livestock Australia, has claimed that the "African swine fever will be the biggest influence on global meat markets possibly for the next few years, if not possibly the decade."
The fever has led to an estimated 200 million pigs being removed from the global market. Making it one of the largst drops in supply in ‘recent memory’ according to Gregory A. Heckman, the CEO of a New York state based agricultural trading house.
As global and specifically china’s demand for meat switches to pork alternative. Australian meat producers are seeing a boost in market share with australian producers seeing a two thirds jump to 72,460 tonnes of meat exported in the first four months of 2019.