Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A documentary about North Carolina’s hog industry challenges viewers to look beyond the bacon on their breakfast plates. But they ...

Since the 1990s, hog farms have gotten bigger, more specialized and more productive, according to a new report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Environmental Research Service. The number of ...

People who live near commercial hog operations are more likely to suffer gastrointestinal (GI) illnesses than people who don't. That's according to a study released earlier this year from researchers ...

Hollywood is once again barreling forward with a one-dimensional attack on an industry facing complex issues and misrepresenting its problems to demonize capitalism. A recent documentary, "The Smell ...

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 ...

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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 ...

KEWANEE, Ill. — As part of WQAD's Hometown Tours, our crew headed out to Henry County to broadcast live from Kewanee, Illinois. But we need to address the elephant -- or, should we say, the pig — in ...

FARGO – Backers of the planned Rolling Green Family Farms swine operation in rural Cass County cited North Dakota's "favorable permitting process controlled at the state level" in pitching their ...