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Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012
Charles Fulhage of the University of Missouri Extension talks about composting as a method of disposal for dead pigs from a CAFO site. In the background, farmer David Bentley stands in front of a loader filled with the composted remains of a 250-pound hog. Dead animals can also be incinerated, buried or rendered.