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... on an added significance - they came from the students' own drinking water. Lenoir Community College and Smithfield Foods Inc. have teamed up to help area students conduct water sample tests along the Neuse during World Water Monitoring Day for the ...
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Credit crunch hits local industry
... and complete the transaction by the end of January 2009. The problems with liquidity forced debt-plagued Smithfield Foods a week ago to reaffirm that it has enough money to meet its scheduled payments. As meat producers have come under strong ...
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Unique Virginia Partnership Will Study Disappearance of Pagan River Marshlands
A unique partnership of Smithfield Foods, Inc., Norfolk State University, the James River Association and The Smithfield Times today announced a project that will study the extent and potential causes of a ...
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Postscript...Smithfield widow led a fulfilling life, close to home
... year, she paid him in pennies. After his father died, Luter said, his mother got a serious offer for the Smithfield Foods empire his father had built. She and all her children would have been set for life, he said. Instead, she gave him the ...
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Food pays the price for credit crisis
... to operate until 28 October and some analysts rate the likelihood of bankruptcy at 50:50. Shares in Smithfield Foods, meanwhile, have been hit as rumours have swirled over its future. The hog and pork processor has insisted it has adequate liquidity ...
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Crisis gives world farm sector a jolt
... other big meat producers who depend on farmers were also hit, with Tyson shares down about 3 percent and Smithfield Foods Inc (SFD.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) down about 6 percent. U.S. farmers endure credit crunch, worry about 2009
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Overturned pig truck shuts down Godwin Boulevard
... and into a ditch, George said. A recovery team from Murphy-Brown, which raises hogs and transports them for Smithfield Foods , responded to the scene. Some of pigs got loose, and the team was rounding them up this morning, George said. She couldn't ...
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Grant intended to help people lose weight
The Luter Family YMCA in Smithfield recently got $497,029 from the Obici Healthcare Foundation.
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Hillary Clinton turned down Paula Deen interview
... do it, I think because of my relationship with Smithfield,' Deen said. (Deen has an endorsement deal with Smithfield Foods.) 'Smithfield's largest plant is not unionized,' Deen continued, 'so my guess is the union people called and said to Hillary's ...
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Names and Faces: Hillary Clinton turned down Paula Deen interview
... do it, I think because of my relationship with Smithfield," Deen said. (Deen has an endorsement deal with Smithfield Foods.) "Smithfield's largest plant is not unionized," Deen continued, "so my guess is the union people called and said to Hillary's ...
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PETA complains hogs were mistreated in wreck
... with the Norfolk-based animal rights group, said employees with Murphy-Brown - the hog production arm of Smithfield Foods - and with Goldsboro Hog Farms pulled the animals by their ears and hit them with tools in the face, head and sides as they ...
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Pigs Survive Hell on Highway Just to Be Abused
... at the site of the accident by responding workers, including employees of Murphy-Brown, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods Inc. As if the trauma of the accident weren't enough, while workers were removing the surviving pigs from the scene in order to ...
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Meat stocks plunge as Wall Street takes a dive
... fell 74 cents, or 21%, to $2.81, while Tyson Foods Inc. shares fell $1.30, or 10%, to $11.39. Shares of Smithfield Foods Inc. fell $2.65, or 15%, to $14.46. In recent days, the sector was already falling as the credit crisis on Wall Street deepened. ...
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Scholastic Will Succeed Despite Harry Potter Loss
... raised prices to offset the cost of iron ore, while food processors like Pilgrim's Pride (NYSE: PPC ) and Smithfield Foods (NYSE: SFD ) have been caught between the soaring cost of feed and weak prices for their products. Bottom Line Although ...
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UFCW and Farmland Have a New Contract
... the Denison Farmland plant one of the safest meatpacking plants in the nation. Farmland is a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods.
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Smithfield 'on very sound financial footing'
Smithfield Foods Inc. said in a statement on Sept. 26 in an attempt to squelch rumors that it was in financial trouble that given the recent turmoil in portions of the protein industry, the company reaffirms ...
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Oil's fall from record may not deflate groceries
... "We expect fresh pork prices and live hog values will increase gradually over time as supplies tighten," Smithfield Foods Inc. said in its annual report. The poultry industry, faced with similar pressures, has been slaughtering chickens at a record ...
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Smithfield Foods: Recent Slide Offers Meaty Buying Opportunity
... protein segment is getting crushed in sympathy with Pilgrim's Pride's ( PPC ) liquidity woes. Last Friday, Smithfield Foods ( SFD ) was subject to persistent rumors that it too, was close to suffering a similar fate. Its share price went on a roller ...
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With the effective date for the Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling program looming just a handful of days ahead, Smithfield Foods announced plans to only work with producers able to provide the company with ...
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Smithfield Foods says finances OK
Meat producer Smithfield Foods says its finances are sound. Smithfield said Friday that it had more than $500 million in liquidity and expected to remain in compliance with debt covenants through the end of its ...
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