BLOOMING PRAIRIE, Minnesota — In 2014, Lowell Trom hit a breaking point. For two decades, he had watched as his small farming ...

In 2014, Lowell and Evelyn Trom learned that a farmer wanted to build a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) across the road from their family farm in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota. By then, ...

A factory hog operation has been proposed less than 1 mile from the Devils Lake shore. Yearly, this facility would house over 100,000 pigs and produce over 3.5 million gallons of waste! Langdon, and ...

Most hogs today are raised in barns that house thousands of animals, often owned by a company contracting with a local farmer. The factory-style operations are an economic driver in ...

Regarding, "Saying no to factory hog farm," Forum editorial, published Sept. 8: As candidates for the Legislature from District 22, we agree with the position of the Concerned Citizens of Buffalo ...

Predictions for this year's hurricane season are unprecedented. Factory farms will make devastating storms and flooding even worse. Predictions for this year's hurricane season are unprecedented.

Factory farms in Iowa produce 109 billion pounds of waste each year, according to a new report from Food and Water Watch about concentrated livestock operations in the U.S. That’s 25 times more waste ...

This is in response to the letter from the Greenup fellow regarding factory hog farms. I have visited a modern factory hog farm and dairy cattle facility. The trends however are not more of these ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Gov. Tom Vilsack briefly mentioned solutions that state leaders may enact to regulate factory hog farms during his Condition of the State speech on Tuesday. "Today, I renew my ...

Factory farms in Iowa produce 109 billion pounds of waste each year, according to a new report from Food and Water Watch about concentrated livestock operations in the U.S. That’s 25 times more waste ...