Death comes to us all. Life's but a walking shadow | .. they aren't going to stop at just the middlemen. Why not make all the profit?
Quote: Smithfield also aims to work directly with farmers to influence farm management, from crop rotations to fertilizer and fungicide applications that could result in higher-quality grain that speeds weight gain in hogs. Smithfield could have a say in the seeds that are planted for the grain to feed the hogs it slaughters to produce the pork it sells.
“In a dirt-to-fork story, you have to start with the dirt," said Joe Kerns, president of animal agriculture consulting firm Kerns Associates. “This is the first foray.”
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Smithfield cuts out the "middleman"
