Just six months after Linn County commissioners thought they’d voted to limit large-scale poultry farms, the commission is now revisiting its decision, after learning other livestock operations could ...

MORNING SUN, Iowa—Jean and Thomas Lappe rolled down the window of their 2010 Ford F-150 as they drove to one of the more than a dozen industrial hog farms that surround their home. A hog’s carcass was ...

Arkansans are largely familiar with the yearslong battle over the presence of a large-scale hog farm in the watershed of the Buffalo National River. That particular real-life drama, in which people ...

10% increase in productivity by applying the world’s first digital twin and building a virtual livestock barn. Integrated management such as early detection of livestock diseases and energy efficiency ...

After a major outbreak of African swine fever in 2018, China massively industrialized its pig farming sector to ensure food ...

DANVILLE, Iowa (AP) -- An area farmer has filed two different proposals to build a hog confinement operation on the same site, testing the state's new livestock law and frustrating the county board.

If the industrialization of hog production takes hold on the Northern Plains, lawmakers and hog producers can take lessons from the mistakes made in the southeastern United States, specifically North ...