Hog industry potential in Mindanao.
THE lowest cost of pork production in the world is probably in Mindanao according to an executive of PIC, a world producer of hogs and listed in the London Stock Exchange. Right now the cost of production of some of the commercial companies are already below R40...

MEATY BOTTLENECK.
Byline: Susan Palmer The Register-Guard Keith Cooper's hog farm - 30 acres off Spencer Creek Road west of Eugene - doesn't hold a candle to the big operators. With about 100 animals in various stages of growth - from newborn piglets to breeding size adults - Cooper's...

Smithfield Foods Names Robert Manly as CFO; Carey Dubois Becomes VP, Finance.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-11 June 2008-Smithfield Foods Names Robert Manly as CFO; Carey Dubois Becomes VP, Finance(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Robert W. Manly IV, executive vice president of Smithfield Foods, has been named to the additional position of chief financial officer, effective July 1. ...

More companies discontinuing farm-animal confinement.
More companies around the world are adjusting their farm-animal confinement policies, largely in response to U.S. voter-led initiatives and to the implementation of European Union farm-policy reforms. Forcing chickens, pigs, or young cattle into tight cages, crates, or pens is common in the United States, Europe, and...

ELCA bishop calls for immigration reform.
A FEDERAL immigration raid with arrests of about 390 people at a meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa, has brought "devastation" to the community, said a Lutheran bishop at an ecumenical prayer service at a Catholic church in nearby Waterloo. Calling for national immigration reform, Bishop Steven...

Religious support for Humane Society goals; Bible calls for humans to be `stewards' of the earth.
Byline: Bronislaus B. Kush The video, taken at a California slaughterhouse, graphically shows a number of prone cattle - some crippled and others ill - being beaten about the head with brooms, poked in the eyes and face with electric prods, dragged by chains and rammed by...

Danger from pig brains.
Slaughterhouse workers who inhale pig-brain particles risk contracting a nerve-damaging illness. More than 20 people have been diagnosed with the mysterious disease, which causes nondescript pain, weakness, fatigue and possibly paralysis. The first case appeared in 2004 at a Minnesota slaughterhouse. Since then, at least 18 workers...

Playing dinner table roulette.
After a year of major recalls of contaminated foods--peanut butter, ground beef, canned chili, and even pet food--February brought the Godzilla of all recalls. The U.S. Department of Agriculture negotiated a recall by Westland/Hall mark Meat Co. of 143 million pounds of beef (mostly from aging dairy...

Pinnacle Foods Finance Schedules Earnings Call.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-30 April 2008-Pinnacle Foods Finance Schedules Earnings Call(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Pinnacle Foods Finance will hold a conference call to discuss results for the period ended March 30, on Thursday, May 15, at 2 PM (ET). To access the call, you...

Pinnacle Foods Finance LLC Earnings Call for the Period Ended December 30, 2007.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-3 March 2008-Pinnacle Foods Finance LLC Earnings Call for the Period Ended December 30, 2007(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Pinnacle Foods Finance will hold a conference call to discuss results for the period ended December 30, 2007 on Tuesday, March 11, at 1 p.m....