Pig brother helps porkers flourish
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Hi-tech monitoring of livestock at pig farms could help improve the animal growth process and reduce costs.
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Man's best friend could also be a  lifesaver in the fight against cancer.
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LIMA, Peru - After 34 years of patient tinkering, researchers at Peru's most prestigious agrarian university have bred a new culinary export they hope will scamper onto dinner plates throughout America and the world: the super guinea pig.    The animal is a cuddly companion for millions of children in the United States...
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SPARKS, Nev. - Some 300,000 people are expected to pig out on about 130,000 pounds of pork ribs...
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By PAUL J. WEBER WEST ORANGE, Texas - Sam Henry swept dead pigs off Highway 87 two days after Hurricane Rita tossed them there. Then his job turned really unpleasant.
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CLARKSDALE, Miss. - When Dorothy Marie goes for a stroll, a few blocks can take a toll. Dorothy Marie is a 300-pound potbellied pig. On Christmas Eve, the Betty Streett family left their pet pig at home while they went away for the holiday.
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The flip side of low-carb dieting is high-protein eating, and that&#39;s helping boost profits at Virginia&#39;s Smithfield Foods, the world&#39;s biggest pork producer.
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A well-made absorbing tale of two brothers in a small town.
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China hails transgenic porker breakthrough One of the three transgenic "glow-in the dark" pigs born back in 2006 in China's Northeast Agricultural University in Harbin has given birth to fluorescent piglets, indicating the "technology to breed transgenic pigs via cell nuclear transfer is mature", according to professor Liu Zhonghua.â¦
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LEXINGTON, N.C. - A 65-pound pot-bellied pig will be called into forecasting duty when Lexington celebrates "Groundhawg's Day" on Feb. 2. "Lil Bit" will be looking for her shadow to help determine how soon spring will arrive.
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FOSHAN, China -- At first, it was just some of the piglets. The mother gave birth to 13, all of them stillborn. Within a few weeks, however, she and other adult pigs in neighboring stalls became feverish and died. By the end of the summer, all but a handful of the village's 300 pigs had succumbed...
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Pure Iberian porker's leg at a price you can't afford Aficionados of pure Iberian ham are apparently fighting to get their laughing gear round one of the few legs of 2006 Alba Quercus Reserve - a jamÃ³n ibÃ©rico puro hewn from acorn-fed* porkers and cured for two years - which goes on sale next year at a reserve price of Â£1,000 a leg.â¦
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WINGINA, Va. -- To some, Richard Bean is a folk hero: the small farmer who dared to sell local, naturally raised pork chops, ribs, sausages and bacon. To the government, Bean looks like a felon.
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Hogzilla is being made into a horror movie. But the sequel may be even bigger: Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet 4, from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires.
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It turns out that the Bad Boy family is getting two new   members.
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LOS ANGELES A Los Angeles pork processing company has been bought by Hormel Foods Corporation for 186 (m) million dollars. Clougherty Parking Company distributes frest-cut pork, bacon, sausages and cooked ham under the Farmer John brand name.
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BEIJING, Feb. 28 The Year of the Pig has turned into the year of the baby.