AR-News: (US MO) New Tool Developed To Help Hog Producers Protect Environment

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Mar. 9, 2004

A new tool to help hog producers to better protect the environment has been 
developed by Murphy-Brown LLC, a swine production subsidiary of Smithfield 
Foods Inc., and the North Carolina Division of Pollution Prevention and 
Environmental Assistance. 

Murphy-Brown and the N.C. DPPEA said the system they have developed and are 
offering is "a user-friendly management tool that provides an organized 
approach to identifying and managing those parts of swine operations that could 
affect the environment, such as feeding, clean-up, waste treatment systems and 
spray irrigation." 

Murphy-Brown described the tool as "a prototypical environmental management 
system that can meet the specific needs of swine producers nationwide for an 
environmental action plan." The company said the EMS program "consists of 
policies, procedures and practices that are designed to ensure that high 
environmental standards are routinely maintained at swine operations." 




full story:

http://www.cropdecisions.com/show_story.php?id=23987 
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