Christensen Farms, one of the nation's largest pork producers, has suspended seven employees over hidden camera footage that appears to show sick sows and piglets being abused and neglected at a ...

Talk to any farmer who used to raise pigs, and they’ll more than likely tell you it all changed in 1998. That’s the year that draws memories of agony and financial pain for many. Hog margins bled red, ...

Environmentalists are taking aim at the hog industry, calling for industry-wide reforms. They came to Raleigh Wednesday to argue their case. Environmentalists, family farm activists and animal welfare ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. As a student at UNC-Chapel Hill, Jamie Berger wrote her undergraduate honors thesis on ...

Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) in Duplin County, NC. Hog farms can be identified by the lagoons located next to the long hog houses. The hog waste is washed from the houses into the ...

There is an old saying, perhaps trite: You don’t know how tough you are until tough is the only option. It’s only hog farming to some, but it has been the lifeblood of Beaver County. But now with ...

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 ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) - Covered swine barns dot the landscape near Platte Center, where tens of thousands of hogs are raised and fed. Many of these barns are owned by a local boy who ...

The Taichung District Court yesterday approved a request by prosecutors to detain a father and son who operated a pig farm where an outbreak of African swine fever is believed to have originated. The ...

Although there have always been hog farmers in North Carolina, the industry was fairly small until the mid-1980s. At that time, a major new hog slaughter plant opened in the state, and dozens of new ...

The RSPCA has said it will investigate claims pigs are being kept in "cramped conditions" at Cherry Tree Farm in Stow Bedon, ...

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