date:Mar 18, 2019
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They are going to need pork and lots of it, Dennis Smith, a commodity broker for Archer Financial Services in Chicago, said about China.
The sales were the biggest to China since April 2017 and the third largest since the USDA began tracking pork export sales in 2013.
The USDA did not immediately respond to a request for comment about pork sales to China. Officials have previously said China may be underreporting hog deaths from African swine fever.
China also recently resumed purchas