LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) - Covered swine barns dot the landscape near Platte Center, where tens of thousands of hogs are raised and fed. Many of these barns are owned by a local boy who ...

Maas Energy Works dairy digester at Legacy Ranch in Pixley, Calif. First of a two-part series on renewable natural gas in the agricultural sector. Renewable natural gas, or methane from non-fossil ...

(IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Sen. Ken Rozenboom and his family have farmed and raised hogs for decades in south central Iowa. The Rozenbooms, like most livestock operators in Iowa, collect the hog manure ...

While pig farms account for a relatively small portion of China’s total methane emissions compared to leakage from coal mines ...

On a sunny, windy November afternoon, Bruce Gibbens trudges down a muddy road toward one of his concrete-and-steel hog barns. Clean, crisp air whips across flat fields and ditches lined with melting ...

More than 20 Missouri hog farms have reported an increase in emergency manure releases since U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods took them over in 2006, an environmental advocacy group says, citing ...

A motorist crossing Iowa, the nation's leading hog-producing state, would be hard-pressed to lay eyes on even one of the more than 19 million swine raised here each year. That's because almost all of ...

A northwest Iowa hog confinement owner who has violated state regulations more than two dozen times was recently fined $10,000 for spills from one of his facilities, according to the Iowa Department ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several livestock producers have been fined by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources in recent weeks for failing to comply with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clods of soil poking through the snow show where manure was previously applied to an agricultural field in south central Iowa.