Minnesota's top environmental regulator has denied a permit for a large swine feedlot in southeastern Minnesota, citing concerns about the region's already-troubled groundwater, though the decision ...

BAYFIELD, WIS. – The vivid blue expanse of Lake Superior and the national lakeshore near Madeline Island here in northern Wisconsin have always been largely immune to environmental threats from ...

WINONA -- The Winona County Board this morning voted 3-2 to approve a conditional use permit for a 2,400-hog feedlot in Wiscoy Township near Houston. Greg Smith's proposed operation would consolidate ...

As a 20,000-head hog feedlot fills up near Cando, N.D., counties in northeast North Dakota are scrambling to create laws to regulate such livestock operations. Towner County, which claims Cando as its ...

MONTEVIDEO -- The Chippewa County Board of Commissioners, during its meeting Tuesday, approved a 2,208-animal unit hog feedlot to be built in Woods Township. The project represents the largest hog ...

Comparatively high litter rates and low pig death losses suggest South Dakota hog producers have a productivity and animal ...

Westfield Township, Minn. -- Ten hog farms sat already in a three-mile ring around Lowell Trom's rural Dodge County home. When an 11th got a permit, he fought it. Trom and his wife Evelyn sued and ...

The decision by the Clay County Commission to turn down - for a second time - a proposed hog- feeding operation in the county's Skree Township did not come easily. The months-long process was thorough ...

ZUMBROTA, Minn. — Do you want to live next to a hog farm? On the surface, the prospect does not sound appealing. Hundreds, if not thousands, of pigs snorting, squealing and smelling like, well, pigs.

BENSON -- The Swift County Board approved a conditional use permit Tuesday for a 1,200-head hog feedlot. The feedlot, owned by Gerald Tofte, will be located about 2 miles south of Kerkhoven in ...

ANSLEY, Neb. (AP) -- LeRoyce and Cynthia Margritz don't want a hog feedlot close to their home, so they and a neighbor used a Custer County zoning law to their benefit and took out housing permits to ...

A Dakota farmer has filed plans for a 645-cow dairy farm in southern Winona County. Brett Frickson of Frickson Farms has applied to expand his dairy operation, located about four miles east of ...