diversity) and because of this, many problems occur.While proponents of industrial agriculture claim to have modernized and streamlined the production of food in the United States, such evolution has been at the expense of biodiversity, environmental sustainability, stable rural communities and even individuals' health.NORPAC Foods, a fruit and vegetable processor representing more than 200 Oregon growers, has sold its canning business to Seneca Foods Corp.The farmer-owned cooperative will close its beet processing plant in Salem and its Hermiston processing facility by the end of 2017. Does your plant have a database that identifies the lubricant specification for each lube point in the plant?

If the plant does not have this, or you have reason to doubt the quality or accuracy of the specifications, a complete survey must be performed.While there is no strict definition, industrial agriculture and factory farming refers to a modern type of agriculture which 1 ) requires high inputs of money, fertilizers, and eliminate jobs (industrial farms use "labor-saving" technologies such as pesticides in the place of weeding and heavy machinery for planting and harvesting), in the case of crop production and 2 ) for animal production is characterized by a dense population of animals raised on limited land and requiring large amounts of food, water and medical inputs.Factory farming and industrial agriculture are used interchangeably, although industrial agriculture tends to be used more to describe this intensive type of crop (plant) production and factory farms is used when referring to industrial animal production.NORPAC will continue manufacturing canned products for Marion, New York-based Seneca though late 2017.The cooperative's canning and labeling plants in Brooks and Stayton will be redesigned to make room for additional frozen vegetable processing in 2018 as part of this transition.