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 ...

Don Lloyd dipped his bottle into a tank of water that had been flushed out of three nearby pens filled with thousands of hogs just six hours earlier. "There, that's pig water," he proclaimed as he ...

After all the years of dreaming and planning, when the moment comes and you step out onto your first homestead, it is an exhilarating moment. You can’t believe that all this is really yours, whether ...

Although there have always been hog farmers in North Carolina, the industry was fairly small until the mid-1980s. At that time, a major new hog slaughter plant opened in the state, and dozens of new ...

When a persyn says that they are a “water protector”, an animal and plant lover, they more often than not identify with being classified as an environmentalist. However, if you live in the United ...

BLOOMING PRAIRIE, Minn. — Sonja Trom Eayrs walked down the gravel driveway of the family farm, surrounded by soybeans and corn almost ready for picking. She pointed in every direction. There are 12 ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Local farmers have a lot to be concerned about with the lack of rain the Coastal Bend has seen in 2022. Crop yields are expected to be down in Nueces County come harvest season ...

The Washington Department of Ecology will delay adopting a policy stating that every livestock owner must have a permit to water their animals from a stream. Ecology’s water resources manager Dave ...