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$1 Million Granted to Iowa Pork Industry 

Settlement with Smithfield Foods funds projects over the next 10 years. Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller has announced that $1 million in grants over...

EPA Approved to Collect Emission Data 

Eight hog farms will be among those monitored in the two-year study. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been approved to take the next step...

Deadline Extended for Air Consent Agreement 

Pork producers who signed an Air Consent Agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have a deadline to meet....

NPPC Comments on EPA's CAFO Rule 

The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) has submitted preliminary comments on the federal Clean Water Act rule proposed by the Environmental Protection...

Biofilters Beat Problem Gases 

Producer-agricultural engineer develops simple system that effectively filters out manure odors and reduces neighborhood complaints. Neighbors driving...

Biofilter System Lowers Manure Load, Odor by 90% 

Odor complaints from neighbors living downwind from hog barns may soon be a thing of the past. Biosor, a biological filtration system perfected in Quebec,...

Five Technologies Rise to the Surface 

The long-awaited, five-year, $17.3 million study to identify effective swine manure management alternatives is nearing completion. North Carolina's pork...

Odor Tracking Goes Hi-Tech 

Researchers at the National Soil Tilth Lab are coordinating with University of Iowa scientists to use lasers and wind tunnels to track how swine odors...

Phase Feeding Affects Sow Productivity 

When regulations in the Netherlands required that ammonia emissions be cut by 50%, animal scientists at Wageningen University looked at phase-feeding...

NPPC Supports EPA's OK of Air Agreements 

Agreement protects producers from penalties for emissions violations. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) recent approval of air consent...

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