But it's entertaining fare for an audience that knows its hogs from its heifers.
Graphics cards are notorious power hogs, and generate enough heat to warm a house.
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Rather than going to school, Simplot started a hog farm, and fed his hogs on potatoes.
And its funds have multiple managers, meaning no one hogs the glory (or blame).
But for a cash-strapped Arkansas farmer moving hogs in a pickup, pricey petrol hurts.
On Wall Street it is said that pigs get fat but hogs get slaughtered.
Corn accounts for a major part of diet of the hogs raised by Smithfield.
Those who rushed into hogs, for example, may soon be rushing, poorer, out again.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture destroyed Murphy's 3, 000 hogs and slapped a quarantine on the farm.
It might be biscuits with smoked ham, made from heritage-breed hogs raised by the market's co-owner, Morgan Weber.
Its plants have capacity to slaughter as many as 110, 000 hogs a day.
There were notable declines in orange juice, lean hogs, palladium and crude oil.
However, this new requirement is not retroactive and some LEED certified buildings are turning out to be energy hogs.
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To meet this demand, farmers can't sell hogs that are overweight or underweight.
She takes a negative view on cattle and hogs because of growing supplies.
Other competitors in the consumer staples sector include: Smithfield Foods (SFD), Tyson Foods (TSN), and Zhongpin (HOGS).
In 1998, too many hogs on the market drove prices down, lower than they had been during the Depression.
Still, higher grain, hogs, and other input prices could threaten gross and operating margins, as they did last quarter.
The bond fund managers buy tobacco bonds to juice up the yield and entice investors, especially the yield hogs.
Strapped for cash but determined to rebuild his herd quickly, Murphy asked his tobacco-farming neighbors to raise his hogs.
Doubtless this will give some comfort to those who worry about energy hogs.
With regulatory pressure increasing on energy hogs like data centers, the landlord with the best monitoring systems has the edge.
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Kuala Lumpur ordered the immediate cull of 100, 000 hogs (the target has since been revised to six times that figure).
It fails, for example, to let off the road hogs who make France's roads among the more dangerous in Europe.
Michael Garner said one of the hogs had bitten his brother last year, after he had accidentally stepped on a piglet.
There he learned nearly every aspect of its business, from buying hogs and slaughterhouse operations to efficiently pricing grocery items like bologna.
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One twist: pork bellies, which now cost 22 cents a pound more than lean hogs that sell at 64 cents a pound.
One twist: pork bellies, which now cost 48 cents a kilogram more than lean hogs that sell at 141 cents a kilo.
Dynegy's 35-year-old coal plants are "huge capital hogs, " Bergstrom says, that cost ten times as much to maintain as modern gas units.
The locally-minded duo keeps a forager on staff and raises Mangalista hogs with a collective in Mississippi (cochon means "pig" in French).
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