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Hormel Foods to be nearly 50 percent powered by wind

Hormel Foods has announced a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) for wind energy. Through this and other initiatives, the company will be supplied by almost 50 percent renewable wind power. In addition, the project will result in a reduction of approximately 197,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

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The U.S. Soy Advantage

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Explore the benefits of soy from the U.S., delivering quality, reliability, nutrition, and sustainability for global animal feed and aquaculture.

Swine

Smithfield Foods achieves industry-leading environmental milestone

Smithfield Foods, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has successfully engaged 80 percent of its grain supply chain, which is used to feed the company’s hogs, in farming practices that are both sustainable and reduce the cost of production for grain farmers.

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Smithfield Foods achieves industry-leading environmental milestone

Smithfield Foods, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has successfully engaged 80 percent of its grain supply chain, which is used to feed the company’s hogs, in farming practices that are both sustainable and reduce the cost of production for grain farmers.

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How JBS USA is progressing toward sustainability goals

JBS USA has established a set of sustainability goals that the animal protein company wants to achieve by 2020, and the company’s director of sustainability reports that it is progressing nicely toward those goals.

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51 mergers and acquisitions in 2018 pet food industry

Several involved vertical integration as pet food companies or suppliers purchased other businesses involved in the supply chain.

Animal Feed Manufacturing

Vegetarian-fed animals: Good marketing, bad for industry

All-vegetable diets for farm animals that are carnivorous and omnivorous might sound like a good idea, but are we really thinking ahead?

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Maple Leaf Foods urges greater action on climate change

Maple Leaf Foods reinforced its commitment to environmental leadership as one of 50 major global businesses, and the only protein company, which have published an open letter to the world's governments urging greater collaboration in the fight against climate change.

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Could switching to chicken help mitigate climate change?

Consuming more chicken and pork in place of beef and lamb could free up land for reforestation and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new land use report from the UK which argues that eating habits and agricultural production must change to slow climate change.

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Dominion Energy and Smithfield Foods partner on sustainable energy

Dominion Energy and Smithfield Foods, Inc. are joining forces in an historic initiative to transform the future of sustainable energy and agriculture, announcing their first projects in North Carolina, Virginia and Utah.

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ADM recognized for outstanding sustainability leadership

Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture has awarded its 2018 Collaboration of the Year Award to Archer Daniels Midland Company, General Mills and Agrible for their work on the Southern Plains Wheat Fieldprint Project, which helps farmers in Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri to measure and improve natural resource management efficiency for winter wheat production.

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Morals, environment in poultry production under spotlight

How impending tighter rules on emissions from poultry houses and how the public judges modern poultry farming methods under spotlight at German trade fair EuroTier.

Dairy Cattle

FDA approves drug that lowers beef cattle ammonia emissions

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a drug for beef cattle that lowers the ammonia gas released as a byproduct of the animals’ waste. This is the first time the FDA has approved a drug that reduces gas emissions from an animal or its waste.

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