Boar’s Head shuts suspect plant: Meat processor Boar’s Head said it would close its plant in Jarratt, Virginia, indefinitely and permanently stop making liverwurst in response of an outbreak of food-borne illness in which nine people died. (Food Safety News)
Pasture is top land use: Out of the 2.26 billion acres of land in the United States, 29 percent of it is grassland pasture and rangeland, 28 percent is forest-use land, and 17 percent is cropland, said a USDA analysis. (Economic Research Service)
Leak at carbon injection site: The EPA said an inspection at the carbon dioxide injection site run by ADM in central Illinois found “movement of injection and formation fluids” into unauthorized zones; ADM said the problem was corrosion in a monitoring well and not in the injection well. (E&E News)