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	U.S. Hog Farms Get Bigger, But Not Better
		The methods of industrialized farming are inarguably cruel, but the offenses of the hog farm industry do not stop with animal cruelty.
		The horrific conditions of a hog farm take their toll on the health of the animals — as a result, they are constantly fed antibiotics to prevent disease.
		For neighbors of hog farms, the overpowering foul odors make life unbearable, and studies have shown people who live near industrialized hog farms suffer from higher levels of tension, stress, anger and depression than the general populace.
	www.farmsanctuary.org /newsletter/hog_farms.htm (1561 words)

	Graduate School of Public Affairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Several hog farms are planning to expand their Colorado operations while several new hog farm enterprises are in the planning or development stages.
		Hog numbers increased by a factor of three between 1990 and 1995, and the state is now the second largest hog producer in the nation, trailing only Iowa (Furuseth, 1997).
		Hog farmers in North Carolina had been protected by the 1995 North Carolina Right to Farm Act which stipulated that "[n]o agriculturaloperation [in existence for more than one year]shall be or become a nuisance" as a result of the change in the character of the surrounding area.
	thunder1.cudenver.edu /gspa/library/hogfarming.html (12151 words)

	JNHP - Articles: Hog Farming in North Carolina
		In a Virginia study involving small swine farms compared with large swine operations (factory farms), it was found that with the traditional unit, there was a 10% increase in permanent jobs, a 20% larger increase in local retail sales, and a larger increase in local per income than factory farms.
		The small farms are self-manageable: they raise their own corn to feed on average, 200 head of swine (raised outside in the fresh air and sunshine).
		In a 1993 study of wells around Northampton County hog farms, it was found levels of ammonia nitrogen-a byproduct of urine- jumped from a normal level of 2 parts per million to 18 (News and Observer).
	www.hercurian.com /community/articles/hogfarming.htm (3824 words)

	Hog farm pollution rule passes
		Many merchants in the rural towns, who have seen economic benefit from hog farm purchases, as well as hog farm employees, supported the rival Amendment 13, a proposed state constitutional amendment aimed at heading off special regulations for hog farms and requiring that any rules on hogs apply to all types of livestock.
		The hog industry, which employs 850 people with an annual payroll of $21 million in eastern Colorado, said it would be seriously harmed by Amendment 14.
		Hog farmers have said the cost of some odor control remedies, such as erecting covers over 20- to 25-acre lagoons, could force them out of business.
	www.denver-rmn.com /extra/campaign/news/1104hogs.shtml (375 words)

	Another Something Foul in the Air above Hog Farms
		While the odor of these farms has already mobilized dozens of communities to fight for cleaner air, recently, researchers have found a new reason for hog farm neighbors to hold their breath: the airborne dust above these farms harbors antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
		Since then, factory farms have increased their use of antibiotics to 50 million pounds a year, accounting for 40 percent of all the antibiotic use in the United States, according to Johns Hopkins researchers.
		Furthermore, one hog farm drug, virginiamycin, is a close analogue to quinupristin-dalfopristin (QD), a combination of drugs that doctors use as a last resort to fight antibiotic resistant illnesses.
	www.bu.edu /sjmag/scimag2005/features/hogfarm.htm (1487 words)

	Sty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The family hog pen was a small-scale system of pig farming which is vastly different to the modern American hog farm.
		Modern intensive hog farms in the United States have an average of about 2,000 hogs, and large farms raise tens of thousands of hogs.
		Hogs were also fed “slops” made from middlings or corn meal stirred with milk and water.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Family_farm_hog_pen (871 words)

	Hog Farm Justice
		The same trends are obvious across the Corn Belt, as small hog producers have left the industry in droves, and integrators have increased the size and scale of the remaining hog units now called CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations).
		Plaintiffs could sue in the past, but farms were protected if plaintiffs had "come to the nuisance." That is, you couldn't move next to a feedlot and sue the farmer feeding cattle, because you knew what it smelled like when you moved there.
		The Bormanns, farmers in the area, and their farming neighbors petitioned to establish such a district, received the designation, and were promptly sued.
	www.perc.org /perc.php?id=777 (1771 words)

	Rosebud Sioux Drive Factory Hog Farm off their Reservation
		The appeals panel had determined that Bell Farms, a North Dakota company that operates some of the largest industrial hog farms in the country, was without legal standing to continue operation.
		This will, in Oleta Mednansky's estimation, be one heck of a clean up, when 48,000 hogs and all of their poop, (the first phase of the operation) will have to be moved off the Rosebud Reservation in what is the first such industrial farm plant closure in history.
		The farm, if it had been fully realized, would have been the third largest hog farm in the world, putting out 859,000 hogs a year in 200 steel rooted barns from the reservation.
	www.organicconsumers.org /Toxic/rosebud_hogfarm.cfm (2278 words)

	Canaan Connexion - Sarsfield Hog Farm
		The owners of a controversial hog farm slated for Ottawa's east end are disappointed with a Tuesday court ruling, but plan to persevere with their case.
		Factory hog farms produce large amounts of manure and city council is worried that the farm's owners haven't shown they can protect the area's water resources from contamination.
		After the owners of the planned hog factory were issued a building permit in October, area residents had pinned their hopes on the city successfully gaining an injunction to prevent construction from going ahead.
	www.storm.ca /~canaan/hogfarm.shtml (3526 words)

	MPR: South Dakota tribe fights hog farm expansion
		The multi-state chain of hog farms breeds and raises pigs for slaughter.
		The hogs at the Bell Farms facility stay in the same barn their entire lives, with animals their same size and age.
		For a hog farm, this is a spic-and-span operation.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/200111/06_hetlandc_hogfarm-m (1165 words)

	FactoryFarm.org: Hogs: Facts & Data
		On a factory farm with 35,000 hogs, over 4 million pounds of feces and urine are produced each week.
		Between 1950 and 1980, the number of hog farms declined by nearly 80%, while average hogs produced per farm increased six-fold.
		As a result, large, specialized operations—with an average of 16.7 hogs per acre of cropland on the farm versus 1.4 hogs for small operations—are typically unable to reasonably dispose of manure nearby.
	www.factoryfarm.org /topics/hogs/facts/index.php?pf=1 (269 words)

	EPAtieshogfarmstobadwater
		Five hog farms in Kingfisher and Major counties were sanctioned by the EPA.
		And it's possible, although unlikely, that the nitrate contamination is not related to the hog farms.
		The contamination problem may be further evidence that large hog farms are not suitable for most of Oklahoma.
	home.att.net /~U.S.HOG/EPAtieshogfarmstobadwater.html (665 words)

	Pig Farm / Hog Farm - Animal Welfare Problems on Factory Farms (animal rights issue)
		Hog Heaven is definitely not a modern hog farm.
		The point to George Harrison's "Piggies" is that the hogs in suits and ties are far dirtier than the pleasant little porcine piggies found on the family farm.
		Even though modern hog farms had not been born at the time, Harrison's lyrics would certainly apply to the corporate greed behind those operations.
	www.grinningplanet.com /2004/06-15/hog-farming-pig-farm-article.htm (1170 words)

	Hog producers ready to make last-resort moves to stay in business - Michigan Farm News
		Hog inventories will plummet unless a massive surge of capital comes in from packers, other agribusinesses or corn growers.
		In his model, a farm that saved gilts for six months lost $71,092, while the same farm purchasing replacement gilts still lost money, but lost less at $52,784.
		The right time to sell hogs according to Laura Martin, MSU livestock industry management economist, is when the cost of feeding them another day is the same as the value of selling them another day.
	www.michiganfarmbureau.com /farmnews/transform.php?xml=19990215/hog.xml (886 words)

	Hog Farm Pictures — Compassionate Action for Animals
		This factory farm has their "dead pile" of pigs laying by the side of the road.
		This farm has a storage shed to hold the carcasses which will be picked up by the rendering plant.
		A frozen trail of blood from the nose of this now dead pig suggests she was abandoned alive and left to die outside of this breeding facility.
	www.ca4a.org /info/pigpictures (484 words)

	School to Use Grant on Hog Farm Odors
		''As we have a growing number of hog farms and as we have a growing number of people living near those hog farms, there are some problems that arise,'' she said.
		The university is working with the Illinois Pork Producers Association on the project and has established a ''Discovery Farm'' at a 12,000-pig wean-to-finish hog operation near McLean to conduct the research.
		The McLean farm is owned by The Maschhoffs Inc., a Carlyle-based farm management firm, and has nine identical hog barns, which will allow researchers to repeat their testing under identical conditions, leading to more accuracy, said Bradley Wolter, the company's production technology director.
	www.happynews.com /news/6162006/school-to-use-grant-on-hog-farm-odors.htm (623 words)

	Ahualoa Hog Farm - LocalHarvest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ahualoa Hog Farm is a small family farm offering fresh island pork from hogs raised the old fashioned, low stress, "natural" homestead style.
		These hogs are exposed to the warm sunshine of the Pacific, mountain waters and island soils.
		Hogs on this island farm is produced without the use of antibiotics, hormones, stimulants, and meat enhancers during the 120 day finishing period.
	www.localharvest.org /farms/M3572 (146 words)

	Hog's Back Farm 2006 Sign up
		At Hog’s Back Farm we sell shares of our produce for the season and each week you receive a box overflowing with fresh tasty vegetables at one of our conveniently located pick-up sites.
		Our farm is perched on a beautiful ridge in northern Pepin county, overlooking the Chippewa River Valley, between the towns of Plum City and Arkansaw, Wisconsin.
		Things like air and water quality, sustainable and organic farming practices, control of soil erosion, macro and micronutrient management, working with nature, rather than against it and sustainability for farm families and rural communities.
	www.hogsbackfarm.com /signup.php?section=s2 (613 words)

	Factory Hog Farms Stirring Controversy
		She notes that expansion of factory hog farms has encountered stiff opposition in Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois and Wisconsin may be a political soft spot.
		At PIC’s main farm, their storage lagoons were leaking into the surrounding soil, according to 1994 DNR monitoring data which recorded nitrate levels 5 to 7 times greater than drinking water standards permitted by state regulations.
		She explains that she now prefers to talk directly with the Crouch farm’s manager about problems and that the problems with the stench aren’t as dramatic as they once were.
	www.wsn.org /factoryfarm/hogart.html (2490 words)

	newsobserver.com \| Crossroads for hog farm clean-up
		It did so on the strength of factory farming methods that are a world removed from the days when hogs were left to wallow and root around in the open.
		And a farm with hogs by the hundreds must cope with humongous quantities of stuff that humans typically get rid of by pushing a little chrome handle.
		It was because of the challenges of waste disposal that the growth of hog farming rapidly became an environmental and public health issue of the first magnitude.
	www.newsobserver.com /570/story/439260.html (863 words)

	DLN issues - Hog Farm
		Hog farm is in legal limbo (6 June 2003 Argus Leader)
		Rosebud Sioux Tribe Resolution No. 2000-01 January 5, 2000 resolving to determine legality of contracts with Bell Farms, a full Environmental Impact Study be conducted and completed by BIA, no further expansion be taken until after (1) and (2) etc. PDF format.
		Hog Factory in the Back Yard Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy report on Hog Farms, including a good bit of information about the Bell Farm at Rosebud.
	www.dlncoalition.org /dln_issues/hog_farm.htm (1236 words)

	Air Pollution from Factory Farms - Reports and Factsheets - Factory Farms - Sierra Club
		A more recent study by University of North Carolina researchers found that people living near large hog farms suffer significantly higher levels of upper respiratory and gastrointestinal ailments than people living near large cattle farms or in non-livestock areas.
		Preliminary analysis indicates that hog factories pour more nitrogen pollution through the air alone into eastern North Carolina estuaries than all of the discharges from municipal waste water treatment plants and industrial factories combined.
		Hog operations in North Carolina discharge more ammonia nitrogen into the air than all other state livestock and industrial sources combined (Aneja, 1997).
	www.sierraclub.org /factoryfarms/factsheets/air.asp (825 words)

	The Hog Farm Controversy: What's at Stake?
		Yet the economic case for a hog industry in South Carolina is not clear cut.
		Hog farming has always been one of the quickest ways to make money in agricultutre, and one of the quickest ways to go broke.
		To the extent that a hog industry can provide job opportunities for low-skilled South Carolina workers, we might not worry too much that the jobs are unlikely to be high-paying.
	www.strom.clemson.edu /opinion/hite/hogfarm.html (692 words)

	Hog Farm Gets the Boot
		Factory farmed sows endure as many as ten pregnancies in gestation crates, which are so small the sows cannot turn around.
		The measure will have little or no effect on Florida's existing hog farmers, as no large-scale industrial operations are currently located in the state.
		The ban is a boon to the state's wildlife, which is critically important because Florida is home to 117 species that are considered threatened, endangered, or of special concern, the third highest concentration of such species in any state.
	www.newfarm.org /news/2002/111502/florida_hogs.htm (231 words)

	Hogs 1998
		Gross abuse of farm animals, on a scale and to a degree unimaginable a generation ago, is the distinguishing feature of industrial agriculture.
		Its dernier cri is found in the hog factories mestastizising across the farm belt and into the intermountain west where pigs live their brief lives in huge, densely packed buildings suffused with the overpowering stench of liquefied hog manure.
		It is still first in hogs, but the number of independent hog farmers has plunged from 41,000 to 18,000 in a decade and most of Iowa's hog production is now in the hands of corporations.
	www.awionline.org /farm/q47-3hog.htm (2582 words)

	Hog's Back Farm - LocalHarvest
		Hog's Back Farm is a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm, where members purchase a share of vegetables and, each week during the farm season, receive a bountiful box of fresh produce straight from the fields.
		When you join Hog's Back Farm you become a part of our community, and can get as involved as you like.
		Simply pick up your share and read the weekly newsletter, come and visit the farm and help out on one of our field days, or volunteer to be on our steering committee.
	www.localharvest.org /farms/M15392 (177 words)

	Hog Farm Converts Manure to Electricity
		This water is then processed back to usable, clean-quality status, so it can be either reused in the barns or used to fill other farm water needs.
		Additional savings are realized by using some of the heat produced by the system to warm the colony's hog barns.
		Heat is recovered through a series of exchangers, which use the heat of the engine exhaust, turbos and cooling system to then heat water.
	nationalhogfarmer.com /mag/farming_hog_farm_converts/index.html (1092 words)

	Wavy Gravy +\|+ Wavy G +\|+ A Remarkable Clown! +\|+ Hog Farm PigNic
		And Wavy lives a third of the year in a Berkeley Hog Farm urban outpost, a big communal house he refers to as "hippie Hyannisport" But Mr.
		The Hog Farm, the "mobile, hallucination-extended family," was on the road on the East Coast in '68 and '69, and was holed up in a big loft on New York's East Side, when Woodstock Ventures made a proposition.
		The Hog Farmers' finest hour came with the rains that swamped Max Yasgur's farm and threatened to turn the hippie dream into a National Guard nightmare.
	www.pernel.com /wavyg_bio.html (3513 words)

	Hog Farm
		Hog Farm Sponsored Swap Meets, Bike Shows, Dirt Drags, Weekend Campouts, Blues Summer-fests and more.
		The Hog Farm won the rights to the word "hog" in their business name on March of 1997.
		In January of 1999, The Hog Farm won the fight to return the word "hog" back to their rightful Hog shop owners!
	cyberspokes.tripod.com /hogfarm.htm (253 words)

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