Farmer's Hog Tops Scales at 1,600-Pounds
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HUBBARDSVILLE, N.Y. - Bob Peterson has one big pig on his hands. The hog named Norm, after the character on "Cheers," weighs an estimated 1,600-pounds, stands four feet high and measures seven feet from snout to tail.  Norm lives on Peterson's Madison County farm in central New York.
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LEXINGTON, N.C. - A 65-pound pot-bellied pig will be called into forecasting duty when Lexington celebrates "Groundhawg's Day" on Feb. 2. "Lil Bit" will be looking for her shadow to help determine how soon spring will arrive.
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Financial results were fierce for this agricultural enabler.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A load of pig entrails sloshed out of a truck hauling the guts to a dog food plant, leaving the slop across a busy Little Rock intersection...
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FRUITHURST, Ala. - The huge hog that became known as &quot;Monster Pig&quot; after being killed by an 11-year-old boy had another name: Fred.
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By John F. Bonfatti  The printout shows a possible problem with cow No. 2980. "She has been making 84 pounds a day, but starting with last night's milking, she's down 96 percent," Elba dairy farmer Curt Norton.
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The Agriculture Department has ordered the largest meat recall in its history -- 143 million pounds of beef, a California meatpacker's entire production for the past two years -- because the company did not prevent ailing animals from entering the U.S. food supply, officials said yesterday.
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By Carl Mario Nudi, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Dec. 19--MANATEE -- A 47-year-old Riverview man was killed early Monday when his motorcycle struck a wild hog in north Manatee County.
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By Ken Ward Jr.  kward@wvgazette.com  DuPont Co. officials said Wednesday that new estimates put the size of a weekend leak from their Belle plant at more than 600 pounds.
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Smithfield Foods Inc. SFD.N, the  largest U.S. pork producer, on Tuesday posted a 61 percent rise  in quarterly earnings due to strong hog prices and the purchase  of Farmland Foods last year.
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Smithfield Foods Inc. SFD.N, the  largest U.S. pork producer, on Tuesday reported quarterly  earnings jumped 61 percent on high hog prices, strong pork  exports and the acquisition of a pork processor.
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Prized by some as a source of organic pork, feral hogs are threatening human and livestock health and tearing apart private property, critics say.
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The Agriculture Department sent $1.1 billion in farm payments to more than 170,000 dead people over a seven-year period
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Smithfield Foods Inc., the world&#39;s largest hog producer and pork processor, on Tuesday posted higher second-quarter earnings as sharply improved hog production results more than offset lower pork margins and a modest loss in the beef segment.
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By Larry Carson, The Baltimore Sun  Jun. 3--After going without any takers for five years, Howard County's agricultural preservation program has succeeded in enticing three farmers to participate by doubling the maximum per-acre price.
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The  largest U.S. pork supplier, Virginia-based Smithfield Foods, said yesterday that it will require its producers to phase out the practice of keeping pregnant pigs in "gestation crates" -- metal and concrete cages that animal welfare advocates consider one of the most inhumane features of large-scale factory farming....
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Soaring energy costs and a surge in food prices contributed to a 1.7 percent rise in U.S. producer prices, the biggest gain in almost 15 years.