Despite our lack of biographical knowledge, the hog, gunned down in his piggy prime at in March at Egan Hill Plantation in Bloomingdale by visiting hunter Roger Hosefelt, might be the winner in the who-has-the-biggest-dead-hog contest, an intrepid investigation from Morning News reporter Doug Wyatt discovered this week. Despite our lack of biographical knowledge, the hog, gunned down in his piggy prime at in March at Egan Hill Plantation in Bloomingdale by visiting hunter Roger Hosefelt,...

pork producer and processor, which has been raising prices to combat rising feeding costs, expects a stronger year in fiscal 2008 than in the just-ended fiscal year 2007, said C. Smithfield projected big plans for the packaged meats part of its business, but the potential impact those may have on Nebraska operations was not made clear. Some product categories, such as pre-cooked bacon, lunch meats, smoked sausage and dry sausage, had growth of virtually double the prior year, the company...

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The upshot of this pig plague is a near-30% rise in pork prices and an even bigger jump in the price of pigs. This hits China's population hard, since pork is a staple of the local diet, notwithstanding recent incursions by Western food vendors. Why do we care about this distant problem? For starters, some analysts project that inflation in China will have risen to around 4% from 3% in the most recent month. It apparently set up a "strategic pork reserve" in the late 1990s to offset an...

Researchers have developed a new vaccine that looks promising for protection against foot-and-mouth disease which strikes cattle and swine, as well as sheep, goats and deer. Tests so far have shown that vaccinated cattle retain immunity for at least 21 days, but scientists expect that future studies will show that the new vaccine at least matches the six months of immunity provided by current vaccines. The new vaccine has been tested on cattle and swine, and is equally effective in both...

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