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NC hog farmers worry about Smithfield Foods buyout
2013-10-06 22:44:01| Food - Topix.net
Several North Carolina hog farmers are worried what the buyout of Smithfield Foods by a Chinese company will do for the pork industry.
Oct. 1, 2013 - Rumpke Buys Farmers Ohio Waste Collection Assets
2013-10-06 22:16:00| Waste Age
Rumpke Consolidated Companies Inc. has acquired waste collection assets from fellow Ohio hauler Farmers Refuse & Trucking Inc. for an undisclosed amount. read more
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Pakistan's mountain farmers 'helpless' in face of erratic weather
2013-10-03 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: One night was all it took for Bibi Baskiya's fortunes to be reversed. In June the young farmer had sown maize on half an acre of land in Danyore, a scenic mountain village in northern Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan province. On Sept. 12 it was sunny and the skies were so clear that Baskiya watered her crop from a nearby spring, certain there would be no rain. But that night, her hopes of a good harvest were destroyed. "A sudden rainstorm and heavy winds flattened 80 percent of the standing crop,'...
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Organic Farmers, Producers Have New Option for Chelated Trace Minerals
2013-10-03 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Novus has announced that the Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI) has determined that its chelated trace mineral products MINTREX® Zn, MINTREX® Cu and MINTREX® Mn have met the compliance requirements outlined in the official OMRI Policy Manual and that these products now are listed for use in organic production.
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US Partisan Politics Puts Farmers in Uncertain Situation
2013-10-03 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - This week, there was a federal government shutdown and the current US farm bill expired.
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