""We are working towards getting everyone registered who is keeping pigs, so we can contact them rapidly if we need to."

Naturally.

Very interesting.

I imagine some farmers and ranchers in the USA might consider it a boon.

The "Pig Bomb" in the USA has been considered unstoppable for many years and the expanding pig populations seemingly headed for representation in every state, here. Just read of some in Canada at the Montana border so fellows are discussing the future even here in Idaho. Hunters start drooling over the prospects of unlimited hunting of them {some day} but the downsides to uncontrollable pig populations are pretty well-known.

Then this...

Very interesting, Nitro. Thanks for posting.

Also stuff like this always makes one reflect a bit on a global pandemic affecting humans. Could such a thing start in pig populations and then make the leap to humans? Ah, I see yet another movie in the making.....

The 4-H kids are going to make bank next year if they can afford to buy a piglet in the first place. Piggy Bank!