DES MOINES (AP) -- State regulators denied a request by a pair of northwest Iowa brothers to build two 4,000-head hog confinement buildings. The Environmental Protection Commission voted 5-1 on Monday ...

FRIEND — In July 2006, Gov. Dave Heineman and other promoters of Nebraska agriculture assembled 45 miles southwest of Lincoln to celebrate completion of Paul Segner’s new hog confinement building.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- State regulators denied a request by a pair of northwest Iowa brothers to build two 4,000-head hog confinement buildings. The Environmental Protection Commission voted 5-1 on ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Fire destroyed a large hog confinement a few miles southeast of Iowa City Monday, killing about 1,100 hogs. The hogs' owner, Richard Oberman, said the lost hogs were worth ...

BOYDEN, Iowa | A Boyden man was burned in a methane explosion Monday at a hog farm that had been damaged by fire days earlier. Scott Mulder, 34, was unloading a feeder in a hog building when an ...

In a meeting last month, Crystal Lake farmers Lynn and Lukas Wooge told the Winnebago County Conservation Board that they intended to construct a 4,800-unit hog confinement one-half mile from the ...

MASON CITY — Cerro Gordo County Board of Supervisors agreed Wednesday to recommend approval of an application and manure management plan for a new hog confinement northwest of Thornton. Christensen ...

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MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) _ Higher fuel and feed prices, combined with a troubled economy and lessening demand, means Iowa farmers are building fewer hog confinements this year. Farmers also blame rising ...

BROKEN BOW - A proposed hog confinement facility southwest of Ansley hasn't applied for a building permit, but its neighbors already are trying to stop the process. LeRoyce Margritz, his wife, Cynthia ...

WEST UNION, Iowa — The Fayette County Sheriff's Office is investigating three separate hog confinements that were broken into and vandalized Saturday night and early Sunday. In the first incident at ...