For timely updates on who is leading the elections today, there are a bunch of sites with coverage. The USDA today reported its national survey program for Karnal bunt had detected teliospores of the smut fungus in wheat samples from Alabama and Tennessee. The positive samples in Tennessee were taken from Giles, Coffee, DeKalb, Greene, Hamblen, Marion, Overton, and Warren counties. In Alabama, USDA confirmed positive samples from wheat in grain storage facilities in Mobil and Perry counties and on a farm storage facility in Geneva County. Questions and Answers on the 1996-97 crop year regulations and other background information on Karnal bunt are available here .
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Visit PPI's page for subscription information and a listing of November's articles. Smithfield Foods completes acquisition of Lykes Meat Smithfield Foods, Inc. The Lykes Meat Group, which markets in the Southern and Southeastern US, under the Lykes and Sunnyland brands, also operates a sow slaughter operation and sausage plant in Quitman, Georgia. Smithfield Foods is a leading hog producer, pork processor and fresh pork and processed meats marketer. The company, with approximately 112,000 sows, was ranked as the second largest hog producer in the U.S. on this year's Pork Powerhouses report.