A fire at a hog confinement facility in Wellman has seriously damaged one building Thursday, killing 250 pigs.

NORTHWOOD — A farmer who submitted plans for a hog confinement in Floyd County last week has submitted a plan for another confinement operation in Worth County. The Worth County Board of Supervisors ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Lawsuits over building large-scale hog farms are popping up around Iowa as residents try to keep the confinements out of their towns while farmers fight to expand. The Iowa ...

I believe it is important for the community to be aware of the problems many of us may be facing because of a large hog confinement that is currently being constructed just east of the village of ...

MASON CITY — A Rockwell farming family got the go-ahead Tuesday to build a 4,500-hog confinement operation, the first in Cerro Gordo County in more than three years. Although a moratorium enacted ...

Several crews responded Saturday night to a large hog confinement fire in southern Iowa. Jessica Bear with Decatur County Emergency Management confirmed the fire to KCCI late Saturday night. She said ...

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 ...

IOWA (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating roughly 5,000 gallons of hog manure spilled in Carroll County. The manure, from a hog confinement site, was ...

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 ...

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.

DONAHUE, Iowa — New hog confinement facilities west and north of Donahue are being watched by wary neighbors, but the farmers say they are building environmentally friendly, safe and quite legal ...