Argus Leader Media - News Subscribe Now eEdition Login How to Advertise Mobile Work for Us! Customer Service Contact Us ArgusLeader.com Make Us Your Homepage. Department of Justice, Smithfield Foods inc., the parent of John Morrell & co. in Sioux Falls, announced this morning it completed a controversial $800 million acquisition of Premium Standard Farms inc., a deal that unites the nation s two largest hog producers. Argus Leader Media - News Subscribe Now eEdition Login How to Advertise...

Inoculation studies have shown that the virus remains in pigs' faeces and some organs for up to 30 days after infection. However, if the infection weakens and pigs don't get infected with HEV until they are older, more pigs will still be carrying the virus when they reach the slaughterhouse. Vaccines are currently under development against HEV, although Satou and Nishiura suggest that changes in husbandry practices and avoiding eating raw liver might be more cost-effective measures should...

We do know that if you feed a level that is too high you can certainly impact meat products and the meat products we look at right now is bacon and sausage, said Latour. Mickey Latour says replacing large amounts of corn with dry distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) in swine rations adds excessive unsaturated fatty acids and that could lower the quality of certain meat products. And if DDGS becomes abundant and corn prices are higher, as predicted, we ll probably see some producers push...

pork and pork variety meat exports to Japan was more than $1 billion last year, nearly double that of Mexico, the second largest market for U. To create a recurring theme, many of the recipes from the cookbook also are featured on the USMEF Japan Web site, which receives over 2,500 hits per day. The growth of imports into Japan has also made the market much more attractive to other exporting countries. USMEF also launched a mini-sauce retail promotion in April featuring a ginger pork sauce...

With sales of $11 billion, Smithfield is the leading processor and marketer of fresh pork and processed meats in the United States, and the largest producer of hogs. Smithfield said it will begin immediately assessing "all potential synergies and commercial opportunities resulting from the merger. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of bizjournals. Find local business services by...