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Majority of Smithfield Sows in More Humane Group Housing
2015-01-12 11:00:56| Food - Topix.net
The largest U.S. pork producer, Smithfield Foods, is showing considerable progress in realizing its commitment to shift breeding pigs out of gestation crates, which immobilize them, to group housing. The move is widely considered more humane, greatly boosting the animals' living conditions by giving pigs the opportunity to move around and express some natural behaviors.
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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.
Smithfield Foods continues pig gestation crate phase-out
2015-01-06 16:43:46| Food - Topix.net
Smithfield Foods says it is continuing to make progress on ending the practice of keeping female hogs in small metal crates while pregnant at its U.S. facilities. The world's largest pork producer said Tuesday its Murphy-Brown subsidiary has moved more than 70 percent of its pregnant sows from the crates to group housing at its about 450 farms.
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Smithfield Continues Transition to Group Sow Housing
2015-01-06 15:36:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: Smithfield Foods Smithfield Foods, Inc. reported that its hog production subsidiary, Murphy-Brown LLC, transitioned 71.4% of sows on its company-owned farms in the United States to group housing systems during 2014. read more
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Smithfield Foods says profits more than quadrupled
2014-11-09 08:40:33| Food - Topix.net
Smithfield Foods Inc. said Friday that its third-quarter profit more than quadrupled from the year before, thanks to tight supplies of hogs and market-share gains for its packaged meat products. The Smithfield-based company, which was bought by China's WH Group Ltd. last year, said its net income for the period ended Sept.
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