World's Biggest Pork Producer Pledges To Cover Manure Ponds
Smithfield Foods says it will pay farmers to cover their manure ponds with plastic on more than 1,000 U.S. farms. Those "lagoons" have become increasingly controversial.
After years of insisting that it wasn't economically feasible, the world's biggest hog producer has bowed to public pressure and agreed to change the way it handles manure on more than 1,000 farms it controls in the U.S.
Smithfield Farms, which is headquartered in North Carolina, is to cover
