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Company recognized for net-zero, operational excellence projects   Smithfield Foods, Inc. has been awarded 2022 Manufacturing Leadership Awards by the Manufacturing Leadership Council, a division of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), for projects furthering sustainability across the company’s value chain...
Introduction Biochar is a carbon-rich product resulting from pyrolysis, where biomass (such aswood chips, corn stover, and manure) is thermally treated at high temperaturesunder oxygen limited conditions (Figure 1). Pyrolysis produces syn-gas and bio-oil,fuels that can be used for heating...
More than 20 Missouri hog farms have reported an increase in emergency manure releases since U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods took them over in 2006, an environmental advocacy group says, citing equipment failures and improper maintenance that raise concerns...
SDSU Extension will host a pork processing short course May 24-26, 2022 at the SDSU Meat Laboratory in Brookings, South Dakota (1097 N. Campus Drive, Brookings, SD 57007). The course will teach aspiring meat processors and butchers the basic...
Source: The Record Across nature, invasive or non-native species are a problem wherever they turn up. From house cats to dandelions, when human activity introduces a novel species into a landscape, it throws the ecosystem out of balance, threatening native...
Farmscape for March 30, 2022 Full Interview 8:23 Listen A partner with Polar Pork Farms suggests a return to more normal weather conditions and improved grain production will be critical to stabilizing global food supplies. The Russian Ukrainian war...
A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota has secured $500,000 to study how new influenza virus strains emerge, persist, and spread in pig populations—and what age, well-being, farm-production type, and epidemiological factors might help predict whether a...
Farmscape for March 28, 2022 Full Interview 10:08 Listen A summer experience program offered by the Western College of veterinary Medicine is helping expose veterinary students to working with swine. The Pharmhouse Summer Student Swine Experience Program, a 12-week...
Source: EchoPress.com North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton, N.D., an hour south of Moorhead, started a meat-processing program last fall. Two Minnesota technical colleges plan to start meat-cutting programs later this year, and according to one official, there...
The U.S. Supreme Court at its Mar. 25 conference agreed to hear a case brought by the National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) against California’s Proposition 12, which bans the sale of pork from hogs born...
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