MACON, Mo. -- People outnumber hogs in Missouri by about a 2 to 1 ratio. But in sparsely populated northern Missouri, in counties where hogs have been part of everyday life for many generations and ...

The Stockdale family of Chelsea, Ind., knows how to grow some large hogs. They swept the top two spots in the World's Largest Hog competition at the Indiana State Fair. Their male hog, Reggie, took ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. I’ve argued often that the food system functions like an economic sieve, draining ...

A Frederick County man whose animal farm has triggered a statewide controversy has lost a key legal battle, after an administrative judge declared his 12,000-hog-per-year feedlot big enough to require ...

A motorist crossing Iowa, the nation's leading hog-producing state, would be hard-pressed to lay eyes on even one of the more than 19 million swine raised here each year. That's because almost all of ...

Colorado has a significant role in the nation`s livestock industry. The 2010 Colorado Agricultural Statistics Bulletin ranks our state as 10th in the number of all cattle and calves, fourth in all ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is looking to standardize the scales that farmers use to weigh their livestock and poultry before they are sold in order to level the playing field across the ...

BENOIT - Every Tuesday, one can find cattle and dairy farmers from across Northwestern Wisconsin gathered in a barn behind the Benoit Dairy. It’s a National Farmers Organization barn, and Tuesdays are ...