Onstott said he is simply trying to make a living and would rather not talk about the controversy associated with the new hog farms in the county that have pitted neighbor against neighbor. Dan Cross, general manager of Synergy, said his company isn't trying to disguise its corporate connections by giving individual farms separate corporate names, but that decentralization equals better business for Synergy and the company's contract growers. Dan Cross, general manager of Synergy, said his...

The grants from Smithfield Foods were negotiated in 2000 in a 25-year commitment of $50 million to help clean up hog farm waste lagoons. The state Wildlife Resources Commission is getting $308,000 to install field borders and buffers on swine farms to improve water quality. Do's And Don'ts Of Office Romance Want to express your affection for someone at work? More Should You Get A Home Equity Loan? Thinking of remodeling your home or paying off some debt? LendingTree has expert articles and...

The grant will also help continue educational and scientific programs for North Carolina farmers on the compatibility of water quality and wildlife habitat with farming. Cooper s office sought to award grants to projects that will benefit eastern North Carolina, home to most of the state s large hog farms. The grants are part of an agreement reached in 2000 with Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer. Projects were selected to receive grants in keeping with the agreement s...

But for many businesses, the more nagging issue is who will fill some of the country's most physically demanding jobs, from picking fruit to slaughtering hogs. The Bush administration is trying to speed up processing for an existing and cumbersome agricultural guest worker program, which requires farmers to prove that no Americans want the jobs they're offering. Instead the country has become the unintentional site of a policy experiment: What happens when federal officials step up...

Oct 31, 2007 (CIDRAP News) Experiments with vaccine adjuvants have raised some hope of removing one of the great stumbling blocks to pandemic influenza preparedness: the impossibility of making a vaccine that protects against a pandemic virus before that virus actually emerges. Editor's note: This is the fifth in a seven-part series investigating the prospects for development of vaccines to head off the threat of an influenza pandemic posed by the H5N1 avian influenza virus. Part 4...

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...