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Access to Efficiency: Rural Towns Support Family Farms
2018-05-23 19:31:50| National Farmers Union
By Lisa Everhart Myers, Demeter Farm March was an unusual month at Demeter Farm. It was a month filled with farming convention visits, spring snow storms, and, the very best part, an Indiana Class 1A boys basketball championship for my alma mater, the Morristown High School Yellow Jackets. For those of you who dont know […]
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18 Pork Masters: Hord Family Farms committed to growth with purpose
2018-05-15 11:00:00| National Hog Farmer
Hord farms have steadily grown to the current level of 28,000 sows, but not just for the sake of growth. Each step has been a calculated move with one eye on the future, but also holding true to the past.
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N.C. secures funding to close hog farms located in 100-year floodplain
2018-04-18 11:00:00| National Hog Farmer
Created in 1999, the North Carolina Swine Floodplain Buyout Program has invested more than $18 million to date to successfully buy out 43 swine operations in the 100-year floodplain.
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Batch farrowing offers smaller sow farms improved disease control
2018-04-09 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
Independent sow farms grouped together and using batch farrowing may be able to capture the same health advantages as a 5,000-sow farm with all-in, all-out production, suggested David Baumert, DVM, Zoetis.
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The cost of being wrong: Why cost-benefit analyses are replacing guesswork on swine farms
2018-03-22 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
Cost-benefit analyses may be conducted prospectively to decide whether to implement an intervention or retrospectively to determine if an animal-health intervention was successful. Either way, they’re invaluable.
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