IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped trespassing charges against an activist who helped secretly record Iowa’s largest pork producer using heat to kill thousands of hogs last year as the ...

Biosecurity measures include safeguarding producer confidentiality during a foreign animal disease outbreak to encourage ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear Iowa Pork Producers Association’s case against a California law that mandates the amount of space livestock animals, in particular hogs, have while being ...

The hog inventory in No. 2 North Carolina dropped by 7 percent to 8.5 million. Producers blamed the decline in North Carolina on the high cost of corn, which is shipped to the state to feed the hogs.

Well you know what they say folks: politics is all about getting down there and rollin’ in the mud. You know who knows all about that? Hogs. Here at Splinter, we’re committed to delivering all the ...

WALNUT, Iowa — Doug Matthies has spent most of his adult life in the hog business, and he would not have it any other way. Matthies, who serves as business improvement manager for Smithfield’s Midwest ...

A field with hog manure recently spread and incorporated into topsoil. Near Polk City, Iowa. (Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using ...

LOUISA COUNTY, Iowa — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating a hog manure spill that reached a tributary of Roff Creek in rural Louisa County. On Oct. 16, the DNR’s Washington Field ...