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Pigs are shot after motorway fire
Police marksmen have had to shoot a number of badly injured pigs after an animal transporter caught fire on a stretch of motorway in County Durham…
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Pig and poultry supply chain to debate feed prices
Grain prices and risk management are just two of the topics set to fuel the headline feed debate at the British Pig and Poultry Fair 2008 on 13th and…
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Residents not wild about pig farm plan
A frustrated property owner's vow to build a pig and poultry farm within shouting distance of Vallejo's upscale Hiddenbrooke homes is causing a big…
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Pigs lay the golden ham
At $82 a pound, I certainly won't be making sandwiches with this ham. I recently tried Iberico ham, the famous Spanish ham that's been available in…
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Free-range pork demand
Demand for free-range pork has gone up but supply could be limited if action is not taken to support farmers, warns a leading producer. Following…
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Hong Kong to receive over 3,900 pigs a day
Hong Kong is to be supplied by Beijing with more than 3,900 live pigs daily to meet Lunar New Year demand and to help stabilise prices. The Lunar New…
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PIG farmers are the latest to feel the effects of the disastrous harvest of 2007
Just under 4% of Welsh farms – fewer than 1,500 holdings – keep pigs, but as we report today, that figure is sure to fall after the dramatic increase…
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200 pigs die in farm blaze
AROUND 200 piglets are thought to have died in a fire at a farm near Great Horwood today, Friday. Firefighters from Winslow, Buckingham and Bletchley…
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China denies spreading pig disease to neighbors
An official with the Ministry of Agriculture dismissed allegations that blue-ear pig disease had spread from China to Vietnam and Myanmar. "It is…
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Hog farmers seek stake in plant
Hog farmers in the Upper Midwest and Canada's prairie provinces plan to buy a majority interest in a North Dakota slaughter plant, in what one…
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