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Chinese manufacturing growth stalls
2015-01-23 06:28:02| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Activity in China's vast manufacturing sector contracted for the second consecutive month, according to a preliminary survey on Friday.
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Smithfield Pig Producer Freed 20 Per Cent of Sows from Stalls
2015-01-07 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Smithfield Foods reports that more than 70 per cent of the sows on its own US farms are now group-housed, and increase of 20 per cent from 2013.
Timing Impacts Fertility, Well-Being When Relocating Gilts from Group Pens to Stalls
2015-01-02 21:40:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: University of Illinois Managing gilts prior to breeding is important for ensuring fertility. High gilt replacement rates and reduced sow longevity continue to cause problems for breeding herds. Much of the research suggests that ensuring proper age, weight and maturity at breeding is critical for herd longevity and lifetime production. One of the common steps in gilt entry into modern production systems is the change in gilt housing from group pens to individual stalls for breeding. There is no available data to suggest whether there is an effect for the timing of relocation prior to breeding. read more
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Cambodia garment worker wage vote stalls again
2014-11-04 14:13:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
A tripartite working group set up to reach a consensus on next year's minimum wage in Cambodia's garment sector, is to file two proposals to the country's Labour Ministry - neither of which is the US$140 supported by most unions.
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Lava stalls short of Big Island town's main road
2014-11-02 00:35:16| Airlines - Topix.net
UPDATES with latest developments; map shows extent of lava flow from Hawaiian volcano; 3c x 4 inches; 146 mm x 101 mm; Lava from Kilauea volcano has stalled just under 500 feet from the main road in Pahoa on the Big Island, officials said Saturday. Los Angeles area authorities say they're looking for a motorist who crashed into three teenage girls trick-or-treating in Halloween costumes, leaving them with fatal injuries and fleeing the scene.
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