First Hog Farm Piglets Could Arrive By June
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By Joyce Lobeck, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Mar. 3--Construction has begun on the hog farm being developed in eastern Yuma County, and the first piglets could arrive by June, company officials said while in Yuma recently.
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A new case of the livestock disease bluetongue has been found in a cow imported from Germany, two months after an earlier outbreak was said to have been contained.
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 11--Pork was scarce in the Middle Ages, so merchants could command a pretty penny for a bag holding a baby pig.
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HUBBARDSVILLE, N.Y. - Bob Peterson has one big pig on his hands. The hog named Norm, after the character on "Cheers," weighs an estimated 1,600-pounds, stands four feet high and measures seven feet from snout to tail.  Norm lives on Peterson's Madison County farm in central New York.
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Smithfield Foods Inc. SFD.N, the top  U.S. hog and pork producer, on Monday said preliminary earnings  per share for the fiscal third quarter were stronger than Wall  Street expectations, helped by higher hog prices, sending  shares to an all-time high.
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Having completed a years-long scientific review, the Food and Drug Administration is set to announce as early as next week that meat and milk from cloned farm animals and their offspring can start making their way toward supermarket shelves, sources in contact with the agency said yesterday.
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WATKINS GLEN, N.Y., Jan. 31  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Last week, Smithfield, the world's largest pig farming operation, announced plans to phase out gestation crates, followed this week by Maple Leaf Farms, the largest producer of pigs in Canada. This week, Marcho Farms, one of the largest U.S.
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Golden hogs are flying off the shelves as China prepares to welcome the Year of the Pig.
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WINTERVILLE, N.C. - Tim Langley is getting good at corralling escaped hogs. For the second time in as many months, the animal control officer on Monday had to assist in rounding up three hogs that had gotten out of a trailer on N.C. Highway 11.
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The humble pig will be traded for the first time on the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday following the launch of a new market segment for so-called Exchange Traded Commodities.
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Pampered pigs or processed pork? Farm-fresh or greenhouse grown?
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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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The government is expected to announce new legislation this week to protect people who work in animal research.
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Farmers across Wales will be able to learn more about the practical side of organic farming at an Iger open day next week. Organic food sales are growing at a phenomenal rate.
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Hospitals are preparing for a surge of mums-to-be and feng shui masters are consulting their charts as superstitious Hong Kongers seek the best days to have babies in the upcoming Year of the Pig.
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A 65-pound pot-bellied pig will be called into forecasting duty when Lexington celebrates "Groundhawg's Day" on Feb. 2.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - A record 3-1/2 year stretch of profits for hog producers appears to be coming to an end this year due to high corn costs, but a growing export market could again bolster profits in coming years, a leading agriculture economist said.