As part of its broader strategic initiatives, Smithfield announced its plan to transfer some hog farming operations to a joint venture with Murphy Family Ventures in North Carolina.
Headline-grabbing evidence of pollution from hog farms in the 1990s pushed the state to effectively stop the hog industry’s growth, said Bill Holman, who led what is now the state DEQ from late 1998 to 2001.
Overall, since 2022, the virus has been detected 372 times in wild birds in Michigan, including in ducks, sparrows, pigeons, starlings, swans, geese, eagles, loons, falcons, cranes, hawks, cormorants, owls and gulls.
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Jalen Williams,
Detroit Free Press,
17 Dec. 2024
Then, over Labor Day weekend, one of the zoo’s cormorants died, as did a pheasant, a bald eagle, and three flamingos.
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