A typical pen format for swine in many animal feeding operations. Photo by Investigate Midwest. In some southern Minnesota counties, hogs outnumber humans by a factor of 40 to 1. Minnesota is the ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — A coalition of environmental groups is seeking to force the Environmental Protection Agency to strengthen its regulation of large livestock operations that release pollutants into ...

Once upon a time, everyone hoped that the internet, instead of becoming a bottomless pit of iniquity, would be filled with good and interesting information about large cattle. And lo, it is. Other ...

Senators Steve Daines of Montana and Diane Feinstein of California have once again introduced legislation, the “Emergency Wildfire and Public Safety Act of 2020” that is based upon misguided ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — President Joe Biden’s administration Tuesday rejected pleas to strengthen regulation of large livestock farms that release manure and other pollutants into waterways, promising ...

The livestock industry in South Dakota — among the state’s largest economic engines — is undergoing a fundamental transformation that may alter farms, farmers and rural communities for generations to ...

The Cattle on Feed report provides monthly estimates of the number of cattle being fed for slaughter. For the report, USDA surveys feedlots of 1,000 head or more, as this represents 85% of all fed ...

Clouds of fecal dust from large cattle feedlots in the western part of the Texas Panhandle can be so bad when the wind picks up that they coat the nearby town of Hereford, making it difficult to ...