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Developing New Tools to Assist in Sow Housing Conversion
2013-01-03 19:29:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: Farmscape The University of Manitoba is developing new tools to help pork producers plan the switch from stall housing to group housing of gestating sows to design the system that will best work in their barns, according to a report from Farmscape of Canada. Also working in partnership on the project are the Manitoba Pork Council and the Manitoba Rural Adaptation Council, to assist pork producers in planning the change that will best fit their management systems. read more
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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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Will Climate Change Alter the Geography of New York's Public Housing?
2013-01-03 14:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic Cities: In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy last October, a renewed public and journalistic focus on public housing emerged that left many questions unanswered. Writing on December 3 in The New York Times, Jonathan Mahler asked what might have been the most basic question on people's minds on the topic: "How is it possible that the same winding, 538-mile coastline that has recently been colonized by condominium developers chasing wealthy New Yorkers, themselves chasing waterfront views, had been,...
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Chesapeake seeks state OK for jail housing
2013-01-03 09:24:58| Paper - Topix.net
City officials have high hopes the state will give the OK this legislative session to house inmates in the $8 million temporary jail facilities that have been used mainly as storage since 2009.
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