Lower hog prices and firmer wholesale pork values expanded processing margins to their widest levels in two years, which encouraged packers to push more hogs through the plants this weekend. federally inspected hog slaughter this week, estimated at 2.362 million head, was up 10% from a year ago and easily surpassed the previous high set the week-ended Oct. The higher pork prices led to speculation by some traders and analysts that hog prices may be near a seasonal floor. Wholesale pork...

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The deal, brokered by the nonprofit group Kids First, involves agreements with at least three farms to supply apples, butternut squash and potatoes to Sodexho. But the bulk of its supplies have come from large, out-of-state farms that offered lower prices and could satisfy large orders. Kids First says it took three years of negotiations to alter those buying patterns a transition that required farms to lower their prices and work together to meet Sodexhos demands. Although local farmers...

The grants from Smithfield Foods were negotiated in 2000 in a 25-year commitment of $50 million to help clean up hog farm waste lagoons. The state Wildlife Resources Commission is getting $308,000 to install field borders and buffers on swine farms to improve water quality. Cooper's office selects recipients and this year gave $500,000 to a foundation to close unused waste lagoons. by The Associated Press published October 23, 2007 12:15 am e-mail this Print this RALEIGH North Carolina...

Onstott said he is simply trying to make a living and would rather not talk about the controversy associated with the new hog farms in the county that have pitted neighbor against neighbor. Dan Cross, general manager of Synergy, said his company isn't trying to disguise its corporate connections by giving individual farms separate corporate names, but that decentralization equals better business for Synergy and the company's contract growers. Dan Cross, general manager of Synergy, said his...

Although they have particular calls such as revocation of the conversion order, they are also calling for the extension and reformation of the CARP, and recognition for a need of a Land Use Law, which, would redound to the benefit of the whole peasantry across the country. Although they have particular calls such as revocation of the conversion order, they are also calling for the extension and reformation of the CARP, and recognition for a need of a Land Use Law, which, would redound to...

The state struck a deal with Smithfield, the world's largest pork producer, in which the company would help fund projects to help remedy the environmental damage caused by hog lagoons. From staff reports Nearly $2 million in grants will g to improve the state's water quality and help farmers clean up hog lagoons as part of a deal reached with Smithfield Foods in 2000, the state attorney general's office announced today. Located at the headwaters of the New River Basin, these wetlands and...

Modern Nebraskan agriculture involves agri-businesses such as food packaging, meat processing and fertiliser production, as well as the traditional hog and crop farming. But Nebraska's agricultural potential was soon realised and farming became the backbone of the state's economy. Nebraska has voted Republican in every presidential election since 1964. The 1990s brought growth and increased diversity to the rest of the economy. It is a religious, conservative heartland. This was seen as a...

Bierman, who farms near Larrabee in Northwest Iowa, says he suffered between 15 and 25 percent death loss before a vaccination program stopped the disease. Tim Bierman says it started with flu-like symptoms, but it wasn't long before a full-fledged outbreak of porcine circovirus associated disease (PCVAD) was moving through his pigs, top. All the vaccines have been effective in reducing mortality and morbidity, and it sounds like there is enough of the vaccine out there to help slow this...