DAWSON (AP) -- The future of 80 family farms in southwest Minnesota rests on the fate of a new kind of hog processing plant set to open around the middle of December. It's farmer owned and controlled ...

This week, WHQR is exploring the growth and impact of concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, in our series "CAFO ...

But today, a 30-year owner of a private medium-sized hog production in rural Britt, he wouldn’t change a thing. “I love it,” he said. Upon graduating from college in 1984, Patterson, who grew up on a ...

North Carolina is a national leader with more than 8 million hogs and close to a billion chickens and turkeys in production.

Federal food inspectors at many of the nation’s swine slaughterhouses fail to do their job and let repeat offenders continue to produce potentially contaminated meat without punishment, raising a ...

FARGO-Landowners living near a planned industrial hog farm near Buffalo in rural Cass County argue that significant changes made to the permit should have reopened the case for more public comment.