More than 20 Missouri hog farms have reported an increase in emergency manure releases since U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods took them over in 2006, an environmental advocacy group says, citing equipment failures and improper maintenance that raise concerns about the impact on air and water quality.
The group, Socially Responsible Agriculture Project , reviewed 30 years of Missouri Department of Natural Resources records on 21 hog farms now owned by Smithfield, the nation's top pork company, which bought them in 2006 from Premium Standard Farms .
Smithfield said it had yet to review the report and was proud of its environmental record. It questioned the group's analysis and said the figures for the volume of manure releases "seems inaccurately high." The number of site visits by DNR inspectors fell 49% over the same period, and the number of violations from the state fell 94%, according to the data. Missouri is the seventh-largest hog state, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data.
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