The National Pork Producers Council joined the U-S Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Ag Services and leaders from the Philippine Department of Agriculture and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture to announce the launch of a new project titled “Capacity building in risk assessment to support safe international trade of U-S pork products in the Philippines” to address challenges related to African Swine Fever.  Terry Wolters, president of the National Pork Producers Council and a pork producer from Pipestone, Minnesota witnessed the signing of the agreement.  Wolters says the Philippines has had an ongoing African Swine Fever outbreak, and he sees this agreement as helping U-S pork producers be better prepared should African Swine Fever ever strike the U-S pork industry.