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5 ways Hormel Foods is reducing environmental footprint

Hormel Foods stated the ways it is helping reduce waste andreduce its environmental footprint in its recently released 2014 corporateresponsibility report.

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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.

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Vegetative buffers, like good fences, make for good neighbors

While there has been a lot of talk about planting vegetative buffers around poultry farms, what can they really do for some of these issues? There are five positive effects of planting vegetation on these modern commercial farms.

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Biomin World Nutrition Forum offers food for thought

The Biomin World Nutrition Forum, which took place in Munich in October, certainly gave delegates food for thought.

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Inghams wins environmental award in New Zealand

Inghams Enterprises New Zealand won the Ecolab Award for Excellence in Eco-Efficiency at the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology Annual Conference in July.

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Hormel Foods 2013 corporate responsibility report released

Hormel Foods Corporation has released its 2013 corporate responsibility report. This is the eighth corporate responsibility report for Hormel Foods, which includes information on the company’s second set of environmental goals that span from 2012 to 2020, using 2011 as a benchmark. The report is self-declared Application Level B as confirmed by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).

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Australia to get rid of sow and gestation stalls

Australia's pork producers have passed another key milestone in their move to voluntarily phase out the use of "sow" or "gestation" stalls. Gestation stall free means that a sow will onlyspend up to five days in a mating stall, to stabilize pregnancy and then laterbe moved into a farrowing crate or birthing stall, up to a week before she isdue to give birth.

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Reducing emissions in poultry houses through phytogenic feed additives

Air quality is a highly important issue in livestock farming, particularly for poultry farms. The general public is also becoming more conscious of the unavoidable emissions from intensive livestock farming, with the latter one of the most important public issues of socio-political debate.

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Online Extra! More from Cutting carbon footprints: 5 steps

Get the whole story from March 2008's "Cutting carbon footprints: 5 steps"

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The future of pig production by 2025 is 2:1 feed conversion

Imagine what could be achieved in pig production with 1.4 million tons of extra pig feed globally. That's the impact a 0.01 reduction in feed conversion rate would have on the industry.  The pig industry already has made a gradual genetic improvement over time on feed conversion rates: 6:1, 4:1, 3:1 and now 2.7:1.

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Sensient Colors focuses on sustainability

Sensient Colors LLC, a business unit of Sensient Technologies Corporation, is focusing on its commitment to applying sustainable practices to secure quality raw material and create sustainable color solutions.  The company says its global supply chain is managed regionally for optimal monitoring and to ensure a collaborative relationship with the grower of raw ingredients to improve growing standards, produce stable botanical sources and optimize food quality.

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Study finds increased agricultural energy efficiency

Global greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector totaled 4.69 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2010 (the most recent year for which data are available), an increase of 13 percent over 1990 emissions. By comparison, global carbon dioxide emissions from transport totaled 6.76 billion tons that year, and emissions from electricity and heat production reached 12.48 billion tons, according to Worldwatch Institute's Vital Signs Online service.

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Nestle unveils solar array at petfood manufacturing facility in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Nestle Purina PetCare unveiled the company's largest solar array at its petfood manufacturing facility in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The solar array, designed and installed by United Renewable Energy, is comprised of nearly 1,900 solar panels, which will produce more than 585,000 kilowatt hours of clean, sustainable energy each year.

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