In exchange, Smithfield agreed to provisions designed to protect Iowa hogfarmers.
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Midwest farmers delayed grain deliveries while hogfarmers kept swine in warm barns.
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Hogfarmer profit improved after new packing plants sprang up in the United States last year.
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But the investment could be well-timed to capitalize on small hogfarmers quitting the business because of the disease.
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That affects the price of corn for every use, which includes higher prices for hogfarmers and at the supermarket.
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Canceling the agreement could threaten hogfarmers' profits, which have been strong thanks to low-cost feed and strong demand throughout 2017.
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They lived in poverty but independence, a community of half-breeds, poor whites, poachers, hogfarmers, fatherless children, wanted men, and unwanted women.
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And even though health officials say people cannot get swine flu from eating pork, Canada's hogfarmers are worried about the name association.
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Andy Curliss, head of the North Carolina Pork Council, said spill dangers are overblown, noting that hogfarmers have faced severe weather before.
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But the hogfarmers fear the capital of the corporations, & fear that they will be forced to serve as mere "janitors" for livestock.
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One of the main problems facing hogfarmers is the high price of corn, which have surpassed $6 per bushel on the Chicago futures market.
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With pork prices at an all-time high of $3.83 a pound, the loss of baby pigs cuts into profits for hogfarmers.
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Hogfarmers will be paid $23 per pig, after receiving about $1.6 billion in the first round, according to the National Pork Producers Council.