The state struck a deal with Smithfield, the world's largest pork producer, in which the company would help fund projects to help remedy the environmental damage caused by hog lagoons. From staff reports Nearly $2 million in grants will g to improve the state's water quality and help farmers clean up hog lagoons as part of a deal reached with Smithfield Foods in 2000, the state attorney general's office announced today. Located at the headwaters of the New River Basin, these wetlands and...

Modern Nebraskan agriculture involves agri-businesses such as food packaging, meat processing and fertiliser production, as well as the traditional hog and crop farming. But Nebraska's agricultural potential was soon realised and farming became the backbone of the state's economy. Nebraska has voted Republican in every presidential election since 1964. The 1990s brought growth and increased diversity to the rest of the economy. It is a religious, conservative heartland. This was seen as a...

Bierman, who farms near Larrabee in Northwest Iowa, says he suffered between 15 and 25 percent death loss before a vaccination program stopped the disease. Tim Bierman says it started with flu-like symptoms, but it wasn't long before a full-fledged outbreak of porcine circovirus associated disease (PCVAD) was moving through his pigs, top. All the vaccines have been effective in reducing mortality and morbidity, and it sounds like there is enough of the vaccine out there to help slow this...

WHITE PAPERS No White Papers Available Mr Manly, an executive vice president, will direct Smithfield operations in Poland, Romania and the UK, as well as oversee the company's Groupe Smithfield joint venture in Europe, joint ventures in Mexico and China and an interest in Campofrio in Spain. Smithfield Foods appoints new head for international operations. WHITE PAPERS No White Papers Available Mr Manly, an executive vice president, will direct Smithfield operations in Poland, Romania and...

Drugmakers are producing vaccines that weren't possible before--and getting a premium price for them. Ten days later Ballou got violently ill, with uncontrollable chills, profuse sweats and headaches that felt like "a 9-inch spike through my head," he says. In diseases for which there is no private vaccine market, such as pandemic influenza, or for which cases are concentrated in poor countries, such as malaria and tuberculosis, governments and public-private partnerships have stepped in...