Senator Presses USDA to Act Quickly on Spread of PED
US - US Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) is pressing the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to quickly step up efforts to prevent further incidence of the fast-spreading Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) virus that has already killed millions of pigs in Minnesota and across the country, and to provide help to producers already hit by the disease.