DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a longstanding precedent that allowed landowners to sue for damages when a neighboring hog farm causes water pollution or odor ...

Ever wonder just how many pigs, chickens, turkeys, cattle, lambs and goats live in Iowa? The answer is many more than there are people in the state. And that’s just the pigs. Iowa raised about 53.4 ...

Twenty miles west of the Mississippi River in Iowa, Mike Paustian raises some 30,000 pigs along with the help of 14 employees, about half of whom are family. This year, Covid-19 has radically altered ...

Iowa farmland is in high demand, which isn’t surprising considering we’re ranked first in the country for the production of corn, eggs, and pigs. In 2022, the Census of Agriculture reported more than ...

A new study from the Iowa Pork Producers Association finds the hog industry contributed more than $15-billion to Iowa’s economy last year. Association spokesman Kevin Hall says the study, which is ...

CLIVE | October became known as Pork Month because it marked the time of year when hogs were traditionally marketed. Today, it serves as a celebration to thank pig farmers and share their stories with ...

WEST BEND, Iowa – People who think seriously about how to limit the toll industrialized American agriculture takes on communities, land, and water ought to visit the Fehr family’s organic Clear Creek ...

Thousands of U.S. and global producers, industry professionals and experts gathered at the annual World Pork Expo at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa. The U.S. House Agriculture ...

WASHINGTON -- An undercover video shot at an Iowa pig farm shows workers hitting sows with metal rods, slamming piglets on a concrete floor and bragging about jamming rods up into sows' hindquarters.

A decline in profits for Iowa and U.S. farmers isn't expected to be as steep as the U.S. Department of Agriculture initially projected, a new report shows, thanks to improved livestock revenue and ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - A study by Iowa State University shows farmers are losing $1.2 billion annually in lost production to Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome, or PRRS. When PRRS is ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A young pig has won a reprieve from the frying pan just as Iowa’s popular bacon festival is about to begin. Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad pardoned the 30-pound, 2 1/2-month-old ...