INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (KCRG) - A fire destroyed a hoop building in Independence late Wednesday night. The Independence Fire Department says crews were called to the 1900-block of Jamestown Avenue at ...

AUSTIN, Minn. — Keith Ellis traded his off-farm job for full-time farming two years ago. He expanded his hog production capacity by building three more hoop buildings and adding sows. He markets all ...

Keith Ellis traded his off-farm job for full-time farming two years ago. He expanded his Austin hog production capacity by building three more hoop buildings and adding sows. He markets all his hogs ...

He raises hogs in confinement buildings and has open pit manure lagoons. He also employs five people. Fredericks has a 200-head sow herd, farrow-to-finish operation, marketing 3,500 hogs each year, ...