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  2. Pig farming - Wikipedia

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    Pig farming, pork farming, pig production or hog farming is the raising and breeding of domestic pigs as livestock, and is a branch of animal husbandry. Pigs are farmed principally for food (e.g. pork : bacon , ham , gammon ) and skins .

  3. Smithfield Foods - Wikipedia

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    Smithfield retained ownership of the pigs. Only farmers able to handle thousands of pigs were contracted, which meant that smaller farms went out of business. [1] In North Carolina, Smithfield's expansion mirrored hog farmers' decline; there were 667,000 hog farms there in 1980 and 67,000 in 2005.

  4. Intensive pig farming - Wikipedia

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    Intensive pig farming, also known as pig factory farming, is the primary method of pig production, in which grower pigs are housed indoors in group-housing or straw-lined sheds in establishments also known as piggeries, whilst pregnant sows are housed in gestation crates or pens and give birth in farrowing crates.

  5. Cooper Farms hosts area legislators - AOL

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    Sep. 11—OAKWOOD — During the week of Sept. 2-6, Cooper Farms hosted area legislators on tours of multiple of its locations, such as a sow farm, a hog grow-out farm and a turkey breeder farm.

  6. Mingle and pet the pigs during 'Hog-O-Fest' on a Hart County farm

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    Tickets for the first 'Hog-O-Fest' in Bowersville are now on sale for an Oct. 12 event. Mingle and pet the pigs during 'Hog-O-Fest' on a Hart County farm Skip to main content

  7. Gestation crate - Wikipedia

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    Gestation crates, used on modern pig-production facilities, commonly referred to as factory farms. A gestation crate, also known as a sow stall, is a metal enclosure in which a farmed sow used for breeding may be kept during pregnancy. [1] [2] [3] A standard crate measures 6.6 ft x 2.0 ft (2 m x 60 cm). [4] [5]

  8. Intensive animal farming - Wikipedia

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    As a result, farming became concentrated on fewer larger farms. For example, in 1967, there were one million pig farms in America; as of 2002, there were 114,000. [23]: 29 In 1992, 28% of American pigs were raised on farms selling >5,000 pigs per year; as of 2022 this grew to 94.5%. [25]

  9. Portal:Agriculture/Selected article/14 - Wikipedia

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    Pigs have been farmed to dispose of municipal garbage on a large scale. All these forms of pig farm are in use today, though intensive farms are by far the most popular, due to their potential to raise a large amount of pigs in a very cost-efficient manner. In developed nations, commercial farms house thousands of pigs in climate-controlled ...