Sentences with phrase «hog farming»

«I have other X-rays here, but the thing I like about the Novus units is their ability to self - train; a guy that doesn't even know much about X-ray can do it,» says Bob Taylor, Superintendent of Electronics and Controls at Clemens Food Group — a vertically coordinated company that includes hog farming, food production, logistical services and transportation.

Instead of burial at sea in a PC attempt to honor his religion of peace, his body should have been shredded and spread spread about on a hog farm.

Since money can be saved by mass production, huge hog farms now raise their hogs in miserable condition, meanwhile massively polluting the land and water and bankrupting farmers who try to continue more natural production methods.

Realizing that steady income from an acting and singing career can be undependable, Jimmy invested his show - biz money in a hog farm.

• Honolulu Fish Company • Twinn Bridges • Bell & Evans • White Oak Pastures • Black Hog Farms • Hammock Hollow Farms • Fresh & Wild • Cedar Key Shellfish • Halperns» Purveyors of Steak and Seafood • Kane's Family Farm • Fortune Fish • Texas Broken Arrow Ranch • Engine 15 Brewing Company

This data includes independent family - owned hog farms.

By 2007, just three percent of U.S. hog farms, which produced a mere 0.12 percent of the swine brought to market, fed excess human food to their livestock.

(See Scientific American's article «Flu Factories» from January 2011 for more about how influenza circulates in hog farms.)

Nelson and her colleagues found that flu in pigs «follows long - distance swine movements from the southern U.S. to the Midwest,» with most of the human - origin H1N1 arriving at Midwest hog farms coming from the Southeast, and most of the swine - origin H1N2 coming from the south - central U.S. And that means the Midwest, as the final destination for many of these pigs, is «likely to provide a reservoir for multiple genetically distinct variants to co-circulate and exchange segments via re-assortment because of the continual importation of swine influenza viruses from other regions,» the researchers noted.

Seeking to redeem its hog industry, the Tar Heel State imposed a temporary ban on new or expanded hog farms in 1997.

«In the past, to understand the impact of an environmental odour, you would capture the odour in a container, bring it to the laboratory, dilute it successively, present those dilutions to panellists, and have them tell at what point they could detect the odour,» says Pamela Dalton of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, who uses the Nasal Ranger to monitor the smells emitted by hog farms.

«The industry is under fire from hog farm neighbors,» Von Essen says.

Unlike, say, dog poop that can be easily washed off a shoe, people have no way to avoid the smell wafting from a giant hog farm — and animal studies suggest that the impact of stressors, which can cause, for example, feelings of depression and anxiety, can be modulated by a sense of control over that stressor.

The most sensitive detector of hog farm air pollution, he adds, is still the human nose.

In 2010, Von Essen co-authored a systematic review on CAFOs and community health in PLOS ONE that examined the relationship between hog farms and allergies and asthma, but found the evidence for such a relationship to be inconsistent.

Previous research in North Carolina, where the growth of hog farms has been so staggering in the last 25 years that now there are more hogs than people, found that farm odor caused stress and negative mood states in neighboring residents, according to a 2009 study in the American Journal of Public Health.

But Olsen says this is unlikely on large hog farms.

On many hog farms, the waste runs into a storage lagoon from which it is pumped and sprayed on surrounding fields.

Last July North Carolina became the first state to ban building new lagoons on hog farms.

STINKING lagoons of pig manure created by thousands of animals in giant hog farms can pollute rivers, poison groundwater and pump out clouds of methane and carbon dioxide.

As a result, the runoff from hog farms dumps millions of tons of phosphorus - tainted waste into the soil.

If the novel H1N1 virus behaves like its ancestors, humans may have a rough road ahead, especially if it takes hold on hog farms.

Aside from the dizzying stench, hog farms pollute the environment by releasing phosphorous, which leads to the death of fish.

The merger would then help fuel China's shift toward even more hog farms that adopt Smithfield's vertically integrated processes — namely, industrial - size farms that raise pigs in close quarters and dispose of their waste through the lagoon - and - spray method, thereby threatening to reproduce the same health and antibiotic - resistance issues in China.

In fact, China's State Council in 2011 said that it planned to put $ 385 million a year toward construction of large - scale hog farms for five years, moving toward consolidation.

That increase could also promote the growth of antibiotic - resistant bacteria and increase health risks for hog farm workers and the communities living around them.

Epidemiologist Steve Wing from the Gillings School of Global Public Health placed air pollution monitors in communities surrounded by large hog farms.

Meanwhile, a study9, 10 just released by the journal JAMA Internal Medicine found that people who live near hog farms or places where hog manure is applied as fertilizer have a much greater risk of contracting MRSA.»

Level of exposure was calculated based on proximity to hog farms, the size of the farms, and how much manure the farm in question used.

Among the 30 - plus gifts that little Sophia received from her relatives were: a toy train, a space - hogging farm door activity centre, several Cabbage Patch dolls, some wheeled animals (that have gone untouched since), a toy vacuum, a toy mop, two strollers, and a bike that the child has yet to ride because she can't reach the pedals.

Prior to BC SPCA, Craig worked on several farms, including being the operational manager of a commercial hog farm on Vancouver Island.

During college, Dr. Riddick worked at a hog farm and managed a barn of horses at summer camp.

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Now, a factory hog farm is putting one of Arkansas» most beautiful spots at risk.

Four years ago Duffy Connolly, owner of Burrows Hall Farm, approached Santee Cooper with the idea of building an anaerobic digester that could capture methane gas, naturally produced on his hog farm, and turn that methane into a fuel source for electricity.

A Williamsburg County hog farm will be the site of a new methane gas power generation facility.

The state's environmental agency agreed last week to tighten permit requirements on hog farms to settle civil rights complaints filed by social justice and environmental groups in 2014 and 2016.

The methane digester will be built on a Williamsburg County hog farm and the electricity generated will be used by customers of Santee Cooper, the state - owned utility.

Most Popular: Lawsuits Against North Carolina Hog Farms Could Help Reform State's CAFO Industry.

Quick aside: this concern over drilling in a flood zone is the same reason Arkansans are concerned about an industrial hog farm being built near the Buffalo National River.

The concert itself has also become, in part, a celebration of greener food: according to the AP, fans had choices such as»... organic beer, pork sandwiches from a Missouri family's hog farm, soy milk and $ 9 organic hamburgers» at the show.

We have handled many claims against many types of farms such as hog farms, cattle farms, wind farms, windmill construction, irrigation or drainage operations, chemical or fertilizer exposure, and commercial farms.

People who lived next to the 15,000 - head hog farm in Eastern North Carolina filed suit in 2014 against the pork producer Murphy - Brown, a division of Smithfield Foods, according to prior coverage by the Wall Street Journal and Law360.

Meat cutters, butchers and hog farm employment present very dangerous places to work.

Our meatpacking and hog farm accident attorneys have represented workers facing a wide range of injuries, including repetitive motion / trauma injuries, crush injuries, back injuries, injuries from exposure to toxic chemicals and more.

Hog operations have a right to exist, but your client may not appreciate building a dream home down wind from a hog farm.

Not exact matches

The ever - optimistic Ohio farmer Gene Logsdon, for instance, makes a persuasive case for returning to grass - feeding steers, hogs, chicken, dairy cows and sheep instead of the concentrated feedlot farming favored by industrial agribusiness.

Many of them allow you to buy quarter - and half - hogs directly from the farm, thereby bringing the cost down significantly.

The main experiments used to conduct this research are the Farming Systems Trial (FST)- the oldest continuous trial in the US that compares organic and conventional farming systems, the new Vegetable Systems Trial (VST)- comparing the impacts organic and conventional farming practices on nutrient density in vegetables and linkages to soil health, and Integrated Crop - Livestock Systems using annual and perennial crops along with cattle or hogs for soil, plant, and animal Farming Systems Trial (FST)- the oldest continuous trial in the US that compares organic and conventional farming systems, the new Vegetable Systems Trial (VST)- comparing the impacts organic and conventional farming practices on nutrient density in vegetables and linkages to soil health, and Integrated Crop - Livestock Systems using annual and perennial crops along with cattle or hogs for soil, plant, and animal farming systems, the new Vegetable Systems Trial (VST)- comparing the impacts organic and conventional farming practices on nutrient density in vegetables and linkages to soil health, and Integrated Crop - Livestock Systems using annual and perennial crops along with cattle or hogs for soil, plant, and animal farming practices on nutrient density in vegetables and linkages to soil health, and Integrated Crop - Livestock Systems using annual and perennial crops along with cattle or hogs for soil, plant, and animal health.

At Rodale Institute, Ross is responsible for field maintenance including planting and seeding, maintaining the farm equipment necessary to work the fields, and expanding the livestock operations, particularly the vertical integration of the poultry and hog operations into crop rotations.