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Pig Wasting Syndrome Costing Farmers Millions
2013-03-27 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Stark new figures show that a common pig virus, present on 99 per cent of pig farms has major economic implications for individual farmers and the pig industry as a whole, costing British farmers as much as £84 per pig (if the pig dies from the syndrome), and during epidemic periods, such as 2008, costing the pig industry £88M per year.
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Pig Wasting Syndrome Costs Farmers Millions
2013-03-27 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Stark new figures show that a common pig virus - post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) - present on 99 per cent of pig farms has major economic implications for individual farmers and the pig industry as a whole, costing British farmers as much as £84 per pig (if the pig dies from the syndrome) and during epidemic periods, such as 2008, costing the pig industry £88 million per year.
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Buffett: Insurers' Bonds Are Wasting Assets
2013-03-04 12:26:18| Food - Topix.net
The billionaire chairman and chief executive officer praised managers of Berkshire's insurance businesses for posting their 10th straight year of underwriting profit in his annual letter to shareholders on March 1. He then struck a cautionary note about competitors with worse records.
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EUROPE: "Needlessly" wasting resources like cotton
2013-02-18 14:19:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Europe needs to set higher targets for the recycling or re-use of materials such as cotton, environmental campaigners have said, after research found excessive amounts being sent to incineration and landfill.
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Stop wasting fossil fuels by burning them
2013-01-28 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The penny had to drop eventually fossil fuels like coal might be more valuable if they were used to make medicines, chemicals and fertilisers rather than wasted by being burned. While we know that fossil fuels are used to make all sorts of everyday objects such as plastics, carbon fibre, soap, aspirins, solvents and dyes, it has never occurred to most of us how we will make these things when the coal, gas and oil run out. To help concentrate minds on the potential waste of resources, the...
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