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Farmers won?t feel effect of hog rules
RALEIGH ? A ban on hog waste lagoons became permanent with the start of the new year, but the long-awaited environmental measure may go largely unnoticed.
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:12:38 GMT - (The Fayetteville Observer)

Fire code in the works for hog barns
Manitoba is planning a new fire code for hog barns in the wake of a fire Tuesday near Hadashville that killed 900 newly weaned pigs, says the province's fire commissioner.
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:59:44 GMT - (CBC Manitoba)

Grimes and Plain Weekly Hog Outlook
CHICAGO - Jan 2/09 - SNS -- Following is a week ending hog market comment from the University of Missouri - Columbia's Glenn Grimes and Ron Plain. Pork demand at the consumer level for January-November was down 5.6 percent but has been weak all year.
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:09:02 GMT - (Ag Report)

Pork, Hog Traders Disappointed With Lower Meat Price
KANSAS CITY (Dow Jones)--Pork and hog traders said they were disappointed that Wednesday's bounce in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's pork carcass composite value, or the pork cutout, wasn't the beginning of a trend.
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:37:31 GMT - (CattleNetwork.com)

Fire department called to hog confinement
A fire was confined to the mechanical room of a Crawford County hog confinement on December 30.
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:46:54 GMT - (Denison Bulletin Review)

Hog and pig numbers released
Missouri: The Dec. 1, 2008 inventory of Missouri hogs and pigs is estimated at 3.10 million head according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Missouri Agricultural Statistics Service. "This is down 2 percent from a year earlier and the Sept. 1, 2008 estimate," says Gene Danekas, Director.
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:07:31 GMT - (High Plains Journal)

Sometimes you eat the bear
Nearly 10 years ago, I first wrote about the growing threat of vertical integration and concentration in meatpacking. Smithfield, Cargill, IBP, etc. were buying up packing plants and industrial hog production facilities at a breathtaking pace.
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:08:01 GMT - (High Plains Journal)

Raising the steaks
Hog's Breath Cafe at Redcliffe, just north of Brisbane, is challenging customers to eat Queensland's biggest steak in a mammoth meat competition.
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:00:00 GMT - (The Courier Mail)

Flat-screen TVs to face energy-efficiency rules in California
Starting in 2011, state regulators want retailers to sell only the most energy-efficient models of power hungry LCD and plasma sets. The industry opposes the new rules and warns of higher prices. That 52-inch, flat-screen television on the family room wall may have a terrific picture, but there's a big drawback: It's an energy hog.
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:19:34 GMT - (Los Angeles Times)

Swine year highlighted by record prices, flat profit
TWIN FALLS, Idaho - In many aspects, 2008 proved to be a record year for the swine industry. Too bad for farmers, profits wasn?t one of them. ?It was a tough year,? said Kuna Hog Farmer Brad Thornton.
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:36:55 GMT - (AG Weekly)

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As I Please (Microsoft Edition)
(1) Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Beta as a Free Download (2) Video: Why Microsoft Wants Windows 7 Out ASAP (3) How to Get Your Mitts on the Windows 7 Beta (4) Windows 7: Less of a Resource-Hog Than Vista
Posted on 2009-01-09 00:52:22 GMT

blog: Limestone Roofoff the shollow end
ok, so geekery, or nerdyness is like a public pool, (this is my extended metafore and I will make it work) ... dire-hog as it were. this of course cued a moment of "To the Library!" the books will get here in time
Posted on 2009-01-09 00:48:10 GMT

blog: Kate's Other BlogWindows 7 Will Consume Smaller Resources
Windows 7 will hog a lesser resource than Windows Vista. This is surely a good news. Here is the minimum requirements that Windows 7 will need from Microsoft! 1GHz processor (32- or 64-bit) 1GB
Posted on 2009-01-09 00:00:42 GMT

blog: Tech Info Tips | Tech stuff, tutorials, softwares and inspirationEPA 'Cow Tax'
EPA Could Charge $175 per Dairy Cow to Curb Greenhouse Gases Farm Bureau warns just this one rule may increase milk production costs up to 8 cents a ... per head of beef cattle. The tax on hogs would upwards of $20 per hog,'� the release said. '�Any
Posted on 2009-01-08 22:48:03 GMT

blog: Chuck MacNabBig Bad Pig = Howl Like a Wolf
Books of the TimesEverything But the Squeal, Eating the Whole Hog in Northern Spain, By John BarlowPig: It's What's for Dinner In Northwestern Spain By DWIGHT GARNER Published: November 25, 2008A bit
Posted on 2009-01-08 22:34:06 GMT

blog: LUNCH ENCOUNTERIt's Not A Cold - I'm A Man
New Year's day saw a dreadful pestilence sweep through Chuffing Hog's pain-racked body, with a simultaneously blocked and runny nose, multiple sneezes and a hacking cough.I was ill.Very ill.So ill
Posted on 2009-01-08 21:12:56 GMT

blog: ChuffinghogATP: Nightmare before Christmas 2008
ATP: The Nightmare� before Christmas�: 5-7 décembre 2008�Ce festival un tantinet itinérant a déjà connu maintes éditions. �Ce festival a vu le jour en 1999 sous l'impulsion de Barry Hogan (ex- manager du groupe Belle And Sebastian.� Celui-ci organise dans un centre de vacances un mini-festival
Posted on 2009-01-08 20:29:19 GMT

blog: Debloque's WeblogDiplopundit on Overseas Compatibility Pay
Diplopundit has a very illustrative example of the effects of the lack of overseas compatibility pay for Foreign Service Officers ... on the hog when we are overseas. One alternative solution I have a considered, but no one else seems
Posted on 2009-01-08 20:15:00 GMT

blog: Life After JerusalemBingey McBackFat
After a bargain-laden trip to Cub Foods, I couldn't stop myself from sampling many of the wares that I had lugged home.� What good is it to eat three of the cookies-n-cream variety of Skinny Cow unless it is accompanied by the appropriate side orders of one bag (less a few crumbs - I didn't eat the entire bag)
Posted on 2009-01-08 19:19:45 GMT

blog: The Rotund ReaderHEY MR.PRESIDENT: DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASS ON THE WAY OUT
Believe it or not, Herbert Hoover was not such a bad president ... out the cronies and ideologues who have hog-tied the actual scientists.)Read the full story
Posted on 2009-01-08 19:00:00 GMT

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