As a federal court jury was being seated in Raleigh on Tuesday for the third in a string of lawsuits against pork giant Smithfield Foods, Republican lawmakers and state officials went to Duplin County ...

LONDON, Ohio (AP) — A fire at an Ohio hog farm complex killed about 6,000 pigs and unleashed a large plume of smoke that could be seen for miles across the rural landscape, an official said. Multiple ...

FARLEY, Mo. -- A plan to more than double the number of pigs at a hog farm near this western Missouri community has drawn strong opposition from some people concerned about the smell and the impact on ...

Operating a 26-story facility requires managing a population of 650,000 animals annually. The structure’s vertical scale allows more pigs to be bred at once than a typical farm. Traditional horizontal ...

Two proposed state rules governing the regulation and permitting of large livestock farms will go before a state legislative committee on Nov. 14. The proposed rules have drawn both praise and concern ...

Portrait of cute breeder pig with dirty snout, Close-up of Pig's snout.Big pig on a farm in a pigsty, young big domestic pig in stable© Narong Khueankaew/Shutterstock.com In 2018, the African swine ...