In July 2007, North Carolina became the first state in the nation to ban the construction or expansion of new lagoons and sprayfields on swine farms by passing the Swine Farm Environmental Performance Standards Act. The Act also sets strict health and environmental standards for any new waste management systems on swine farms. In addition, the Act establishes a voluntary cost-share program to help swine farmers convert existing lagoons to cleaner systems.
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A swine is also known as a boar, hog, or pig. XO, Smartiiz.
Farm workers often get hog rash when working with swine. It can be treated with a topical ointment from over the counter or on prescription.
feces and tissues collected on the farm
It means you are assured with the farming standards!
Pascal Liu has written: 'Voluntary standards and certification for environmentally and socially responsible agricultural production and trade' -- subject(s): Certification, Congresses, Environmental responsibility, Farm produce, Sustainable agriculture
The word swine is already the plural form of the noun. A group of pigs/hogs are called swine. Sentence example: The farmer raised many pigs at his hog farm, giving the best care possible to his swine.
A render farm refers to a high performance computer system. Typically these are groups or clusters of computers used for CGI development in movies and television.
Shoats are young pigs. Barrows are castrated male pigs. Gilts are young female pigs.
Eileen Bergen has written: 'An environmental education and land management internship at Aullwood Audubon Center and Farm' -- subject(s): Aullwood Audubon Center and Farm, Environmental education, Nature centers
Washington State flourishes with dairy farms, beef farms, horses, swine, and goats.
E.B. White has written: 'Charlottes's web' -- subject(s): Farm life, Animals, Juvenile fiction, Domestic animals, Fantasy, Spiders, Fiction, Friendship, Swine 'Charlottes's web' -- subject(s): Farm life, Animals, Juvenile fiction, Domestic animals, Fantasy, Spiders, Fiction, Friendship, Swine
No,there is absolutely no reason to believe that. The Swine Flu (2009 H1N1 influenza virus) is a mutation of a virus that pigs had, the mutation made it able to infect people too. The pigs who first had the flu that evolved into the Swine Flu were in a pig farm in the US, according to investigators tracking the origin of the disease.See the related question below about what caused the swine flu for more information on how it got started.