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2. Pig farming - Wikipedia

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   Porker, market pig between 30 kg (66 lb) and about 54 kg (119 lb) dressed weight; Baconer, a market pig between 65 kg (143 lb) and 80 kg (180 lb) dressed weight. The maximum weight can vary between processors. Grower, a pig between weaning and sale or transfer to the breeding herd, sold for slaughter or killed for rations. [clarification needed]

3. Foster Farms - Wikipedia

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   Foster Farms was established in 1939 by Max and Verda Foster. They began by investing $1,000 into a farm in Modesto, California, on which they raised turkeys.The back porch was Max's office and the first hatchery was built next to their bedroom so the eggs could get constant care. [2]

4. Agriculture in California - Wikipedia

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   California is known to be free of Bactrocera tau (Walker). [303] California red scale (Aonidiella aurantii) is an invasive pest here. [304] It competitively displaced a prior invader Yellow scale . [304] Debach et al., 1978 finds that A. citrina is now extinct in this state due to the invasion of A. aurantii.

5. California pig welfare rule delays frustrate small farmers - AOL

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6. Bacon may disappear in California as pig rules take effect - AOL

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   At the beginning of next year, California will begin enforcing an animal welfare proposition approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2018 that requires more space for breeding pigs, egg-laying ...

7. Gestation crate - Wikipedia

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   Furthermore, 2018 California Proposition 12 prohibits pork from gestation crates from being sold in California, even if they were produced elsewhere, though implementation is stayed pending litigation. [27] As of 2013 New Jersey had a pig population of about 9,000 [28] none of which, according to the Humane Society, are kept in gestation crates ...

8. Runaway Piglet Chased for Blocks in California Before Being ...

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   A runaway piglet led police on a chase spanning multiple city blocks in Sebastapol, California on Thursday, June 14th. The piglet, whose name is Pickles, somehow escaped from his mom and decided ...

9. Smithfield Foods - Wikipedia

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   Joseph W. Luter III began his expansion of Smithfield in 1981 with the purchase of its main competitor, Gwaltney of Smithfield, for $42 million. [20] This was followed by the acquisition of almost 40 companies in the pork, beef, and livestock industries between 1981 and around 2008, [26] including Esskay Meats/Schluderberg-Kurdle in Baltimore, Valley Dale in Roanoke, [20] and Patrick Cudahy in ...