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Smithfield Pig Producer Freed 20 Per Cent of Sows from Stalls
2015-01-07 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Smithfield Foods reports that more than 70 per cent of the sows on its own US farms are now group-housed, and increase of 20 per cent from 2013.
Smithfield Foods continues pig gestation crate phase-out
2015-01-06 16:43:46| Food - Topix.net
Smithfield Foods says it is continuing to make progress on ending the practice of keeping female hogs in small metal crates while pregnant at its U.S. facilities. The world's largest pork producer said Tuesday its Murphy-Brown subsidiary has moved more than 70 percent of its pregnant sows from the crates to group housing at its about 450 farms.
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Finnish Pig Farm Numbers in Decline
2015-01-02 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
FINLAND - The farmers' union forecasts that half of the country's pig farms will be closed by the end of the decade.
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PED Virus Detected on Four More Hawaiian Pig Farms
2014-12-30 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
HAWAII, US - The Animal Disease Control Branch of the Hawaii Department of Agriculture (HDOA) reports that it has detected the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED) virus on four additional Waianae pig farms.
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Research into Reducing the Spread of Pig Viruses in Herds
2014-12-29 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - Researchers working on behalf of Swine Innovation Porc are developing new tools to assist pork producers in preventing Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome from infecting pig herds, writes Bruce Cochrane.
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