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Nancy Kavazanjian
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Topics: Pork/Swine/Pig/Hog, Ag Asia / Pacific,

China's hog farmers struggle as pork prices swing and throw off debt-fueled expansion plans

African swine fever decimated herds, and lured many businesses into the hog industry to take advantage of high prices, government subsidies and easy financing.

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TOPIC(S): Animal Welfare/Humane Treatment, Pork/Swine/Pig/Hog, AgriBusiness, Animal Health,

08/25/2021 SOURCE: www.swineweb.com

Tyson Foods, Integrating the Five Domains Animal Welfare Framework Across Our Global Operations - Swineweb.com - Complete Swine News, Markets, Commentary, and Technical Info

Our vision for animal welfare is simple: to be a leader in animal welfare through compassionate care based in sound science. Part of being a leader means an openness to creative thinking, innovation, and continuing to develop practices. We recently announced our evolving welfare approach and the integration of a new animal welfare framework across global operations, […]

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TOPIC(S): Livestock/Meat, Agriculture US, Pork/Swine/Pig/Hog, Consumer/Retail,

08/17/2021 SOURCE: flipboard.com

Texas farmers react to California law could make pork products scarce - Flipboard

Texas pig farmers say the California law will go a long way to making the life of pigs more humane on farms.

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TOPIC(S): Agriculture US, Beef Cattle, Pork/Swine/Pig/Hog, USDA, Government / Policies,

08/11/2021 SOURCE: www.nationalhogfarmer.com

Full Senate approves USDA Undersecretary Moffitt

USDA undersecretary nominees Bonnie and Torres Small votes also cleared out of Senate Ag Committee.

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John LaRose Jr.
shared this 2 article 4 years ago
Topics: Agriculture US, Agriculture Global, Economics, Pest Control, Insects, Pork/Swine/Pig/Hog, Research, Plant-Based/Animal Free, Animal Health,

Black soldier fly larvae can replace soybean meal in growing pigs

Black soldier fly larvae (BSF) can replace soybean meal (SBM) as protein source in the diet for growing pigs. That was discovered by a multidisciplinary research team of Wageningen University and Research (WUR) and Leiden University, the Netherlands.

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TOPIC(S): Livestock/Meat, Pork/Swine/Pig/Hog, Consumer/Retail,

08/10/2021 SOURCE: newrepublic.com

California Might Cause a Bacon Shortage. Good.

But it won't come close to fixing what's wrong with industrial agriculture.

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Ken Murer
shared this 2 article 4 years ago
Topics: Markets/Pricing, Livestock/Meat, Pork/Swine/Pig/Hog,

Disruption continues to affect the processing sector – TVC | Pig World

Another week of disruption across the majority of the processing sector has been reported by Thames Valley Cambac. “Reduced kills in many places as a result

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TOPIC(S): Pork/Swine/Pig/Hog, Animal Health,

08/07/2021 SOURCE: www.nationalhogfarmer.com

NPPC applauds USDA’s added safety measures on imported dogs

Additional requirements apply to dogs imported from ASF-postive countries.

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TOPIC(S): Animal Welfare/Humane Treatment, Pork/Swine/Pig/Hog, Government / Policies,

08/05/2021 SOURCE: www.latimes.com

Bacongate: How a new law may affect breakfast plates in California

A new California law set to begin at the start of 2022 has some fearing that bacon may become scarce in the state.

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Team AgWiki
shared this 2 article 4 years ago
Topics: Livestock/Meat, Poultry, Pork/Swine/Pig/Hog, AgriBusiness, Coronavirus/COVID,

Tyson Foods to mandate vaccine for all frontline workers and corporate employees

In the last year, at least 132 meatpacking workers who belonged to the United Food and Commercial Workers have died after contracting Covid-19.

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