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Peterson Farm Brothers Parody 5 Songs in New Video
2014-10-29 21:59:00| Beef
Beef Producer Peterson Farm Brothers release 'I'm So Farmer,' a new farm parody of five popular songs. read more
United Kingdom: Defra admits it has no idea about size of solar farm impact on food production
2014-10-28 10:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Defra has this week admitted it has not undertaken an estimate of how much arable land has been taken out of production as a result of the expansion of solar farms, despite complaints from Environment Secretary Liz Truss earlier this month that solar developments were a "blight on the landscape" that were causing a "big problem" by eating into agricultural land. Announcing controversial plans to block Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to farmers who used their land to generate solar power, Truss...
Book review: 'The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food' by Ted Genoways
2014-10-27 10:05:53| Food - Topix.net
When the recession took hold six years ago and consumers stopped eating high on the hog, the giant meatpacker Hormel Foods began ratcheting up production to meet a surge in demand for Spam, its low-cost pro-cessed pork product in the familiar blue tins. Taking a leaf from Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle," the century-old expose of the meatpacking industry, author Ted Genoways details the impact of the production speedup on workers at the company's Midwest plants, the damage to water and soil, and the immigration-related conflicts that have arisen in towns where the industry holds sway.
US Pig Farm Samples Positive for Porcine Delta Corona Virus: 403
2014-10-27 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - There were four new positive results for Porcine Delta Corona virus (PDCoV) detected in the US in the last week, and the total number of positive samples so far now stands at 403 in 17 states.
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PED-Positive Farm Samples in US: 8,702
2014-10-27 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - The total number of pig farm samples that have tested positive for the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED) virus now stands at 8,702 in 31 states, writes Jackie Linden. There were 73 new positive samples in the most recent week reported.
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