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Smithfield Progresses in Switch to Group Sow Housing

2013-01-03 16:30:00| National Hog Farmer

Joe Vansickle Back in 2007, Smithfield Foods committed to a 10-year timeline to switch sow housing from stalls to group housing. Today it reported that as of the end of 2012, it had completed the transition of 38% of pregnant sows on its company-owned farms in the United States. The Smithfield-VA-based firm says it remains on track to complete the conversion to group housing on all company-owned farms in the United States by 2017. read more

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